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[Companies] are not going to be leaving, go to another country, make the product, sell it into the United States, and all… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The erosion of agency has consequences for our politics. As a result of all this, the fundamental ethical challenge of the anthropocene… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old]… — John Reader Copy Share Image
All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that [the norm's] general observance can be anticipated to have for the… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
For me, there were a few things in the Spider-Man comics that I thought were really interesting. There's this story about Peter's… — Marc Webb Copy Share Image
Capitalism is in crisis both morally, due to widening disparities of income and wealth and disclosures of abusive practices, and ecologically, due… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
There are fewer media writers in traditional settings. That is a beat that many legacy brands cannot afford. On the other hand… — Tom Rosenstiel Copy Share Image
What all this tells me is that a large proportion of the people in positions of power across Australia - politicians and… — Clementine Ford Copy Share Image
The problem with much of the debate over this issue is that we confuse two separate matters: immigration policy (how many people… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
How do we take our anger and transform it into sacred rage? How do we create a language that opens the heart… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
“Once, I ordered two thousand lady bugs from the local garden center and set them loose in the atrium. I sprinkled marigold… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
The beam in our own eye is harder to detect, although - or more accurately because - to detect it, and remove… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I do not care what you do, and that is hard for you to hear. Yet do you care what your children… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because … I've done this. I've… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Granted, prostate exams aren't the most enjoyable things in the world, but they only last about 10 seconds. It's well worth it.… — Len Dawson Copy Share Image
The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to… — Thomas Troward Copy Share Image
Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a fathers anger… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
A genuine approach to budget cutting - knowing exactly what you're cutting and why, and with what real-life consequences - is beyond… — George Packer Copy Share Image
God works with power, and can make the unwilling willing; if He undertakes the conversion of a soul, it will be converted.… — Thomas Goodwin Copy Share Image
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Although it is important to examine the consequences of today's actions far into the future, it is important not to confuse far… — Robert O. Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Political conflict rests to a very large extent on a universal ignorance of consequences, as the people who are benefited by any… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
We have all our playthings. Happy are they who are contented with those they can obtain; those hours are spent in the… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Most of us avoid telling the truth because it's uncomfortable. We're afraid of the consequences-making others feel uncomfortable, hurting their feelings or… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
Photography is solitary and there are lags between seeing with your eyes and seeing through the lens, and then seeing the image… — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image