No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
You can be completely opposed to an ideological position, and I'm certainly not close to Aznar's ideas, however he was elected by… — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Copy Share Image
Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind. — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude.… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The ancient yogis discovered that the secret of cosmic consciousness is intimately linked with breath mastery. This is India's unique and deathless… — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
God never asked us to meet life's pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Data-driven predictions can succeed-and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats… — Mark Warner Copy Share Image
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
I am a runner. Last October, there was a marathon here in Beijing. I didn't participate this time, but friends told me… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
If you are hired to shake up the system, do it. No one will believe you're the boss until you do one… — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
The more successful you become, the more the demands of your ego will increase. In the beginning, you simply want to succeed,… — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share Image
After moving to Los Angeles in the early '90s, I started looking into "music for picture" more seriously and in broader scope.… — Paul Haslinger Copy Share Image
In the olden times, the diversity of groups was largely a geographical matter. There were many societies, but each, within its own… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Oil is a tangible commodity, so there is a global market. The fact that we may need less may affect the global… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
Women had always been thought of as looking after the family when men go and earn an income and they're the bread… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation. — Robert Cialdini Copy Share Image
As we spend more, and as companies are pushed to invest, they say, "Hey wait a minute! There's more demand in the… — Mohamed El-Erian Copy Share Image
I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Love is the merchandise which all the world demands; if you store it in your heart, every soul will become your customer. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin Copy Share Image
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
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