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[My father] would be proud, he would hug me and he would be sitting front-row at all the events where I talk… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
The North Korean regime remains one of the world's leading proliferator of missile technology, including transfers to Iran and Syria. The transfer… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If nothing else in life, I want to be true to the things I believe in, and quite simply, to what I'm… — Peyton Manning Copy Share Image
All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The old and oft-repeated proposition "Totum est majus sua parte" [the whole is larger than the part] may be applied without proof… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
What we need to do first is to find out how big the migration problem is and what the economic consequences of… — Ernesto Zedillo Copy Share Image
In the short term, it would not have made it possible to resume relations, because in the Chinese mind, the humiliation of… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Particularly when the war power is invoked to do things to the liberties of people, or to their property or economy that… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Life, by which I mean my life, is a great, or probably the greatest, design, from its very beginning to its end,… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The attack on the law firms and attacks like that are industrial espionage, searching for copyrighted materials to lift and so on;… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
In the wake of the housing debacle in California, more people are buying less expensive homes, making bigger down payments, and staying… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If there were no belief in god, if such a truth were ever realized, then their would be no fear of consequence.… — Eddie Russo Copy Share Image
Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition.… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next… — Tamae Watanabe Copy Share Image
Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bargains are the holy grail of the true stockpicker. The fact that 10 to 30 percent of our net worth is lost… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
But here is the heart of the moral issue for many of us. Simply put, those around the world who have contributed… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything… — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
When all actions are used for feedback, the consequence of making mistakes will be a corrective and appropriate response, because everything everybody… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently. This is in stark contrast to creationism,… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but… — Moby Copy Share Image
To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Always being on the move has strange consequences. I meet so many amazing people, for a night, or sometimes just a few… — Gaspar Claus Copy Share Image
We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image