Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
Americans have been good at improvising for a long time, but in the last few decades, we have gotten very sloppy about… — John Medina Copy Share Image
So much of the hubris that surrounded conceptual art in the 1950s through '70s was that it had this arrogant presupposition that… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
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The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I was spurred by the fact that having worked for women's magazines myself as a journalist, if you go off and interview… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
When the guy turned around, Amy began stuttering. Silently. It was a feat only Amy could manage, and only Dan could notice.… — Peter Lerangis Copy Share Image
The deduction of effect from cause is often blocked by some insuperable extrinsic obstacle: the true causes may be quite unknown. Nowhere… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I typically don't adopt the ascetic approach. In part, that's because I do use the Net for research even as I'm writing… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that he no longer dressed like the big dork he did then, despite the fact that he’d swapped the… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
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The entire 'my art is better than your art' thing really gets under my skin. The fact of the matter is: Your… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The only stuff we looked at were incidents for which there are a paper trail ... (and) everything we looked up was… — William Bastone Copy Share Image
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's… — William James Copy Share Image
Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
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Being a progressive himself, Franklin Roosevelt was talking about the fact that we should provide jobs for everyone who wants one. People… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
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There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
This example illustrates the differences in the effects which may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical.… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
You are the absolute creator of what happens to you. This means now. [...] There is awesome power in knowing this fact.… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
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I think there's a tremendous sense of complacency in the LGBT community. AIDS has lost the edge of horror it possessed when… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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We've always told stories through music and rhythm and movement, and what we know as western opera has only been around for… — Jake Heggie Copy Share Image
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Prejudice against womenis many, many times intensified against older women. You are viewed not as an intellect but as a body… Astonishingly,… — Elinor Guggenheimer Copy Share Image
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