The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into,… — Barbara Lee Copy Share Image
In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was kind of tumbler. The sale as the kind people use to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait… — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate,… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality.… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What is proposed herein is that we have no right, nor any ethical justification, for clearing land or using wilderness while we… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Ordinary Americans, and especially the small minority active in Democrat and Republican primaries, must learn more of what people across the globe… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
If you had to explain America's economic success with one word, that word would be "education"… Until now, the results of educational… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Ancient barrows get cleared away. Legislation is pretty much 19th century. Global warming means there is an awful lot of erosion, exposing… — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
The erosion of privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, written to protect us against unreasonable search and seizure, began in earnest under… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't.… — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
“As we ate, I watched the waves crashing and thought about the erosion, the turning of rock into sand, and how long… — Wendy Blackburn Copy Share Image
Many people are alienated by faceless bureaucracy and what they see as an erosion of participatory democracy. Consequently, there has been a… — Frank Prochaska Copy Share Image
An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I… — Paul A. Offit Copy Share Image
“This leads to drought and runoff, which then causes erosion and floods. However, this situation can be reversed by managing land in… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil,… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands.… — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude… — Hugh Hammond Bennett Copy Share Image
The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing… — Shiv Khera 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
The erosion of equal opportunity is among the greatest threats to our exceptionalism as a nation. But it also provides us with… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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