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While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
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The choice is ours-yours and mine. We can stay with business as usual and preside over a global bubble economy that keeps… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
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When you have the countries like Germany, China, and Russia decline, and be replaced by others, that's when systemic wars start. That's… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
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Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state-- Though poor myself, I know the fortunate: First, there's a knowledge of the… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I was at one of the lowest points of my life when we started this film [Dream of Life], except, of course,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
We’ve never had a decline in house prices on a nationwide basis. So, what I think what is more likely is that… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Thank you for your kind invitation. However, as a gay man, I must decline. I am deeply troubled by the current attitude… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Working with lots of old media clients, I've had a front-row seat on the ascension of new social players and the decline… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
The proliferation of state concealed carry laws has evidently reduced the rate of violent street crime to a considerable extent. When the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Cooperation called fraternity in the classic French formula is as much a part of the democratic ideal as is personal initiative. That… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The big risk in Saudi Arabia is that Ghawar's rate of decline increases to an alarming point. That will set bells ringing… — Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari Copy Share Image
It is enough to have been created, to have embodied for a moment the infinite and tumultuously creative spirit. It is infinitely… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter -… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
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Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless… — John Irving Copy Share Image
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...democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
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We wanted to preserve as many jobs as possible, so when our sales continued to decline in August 2008, we did about… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
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