And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers… — Hjalmar Schacht Copy Share Image
We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Passion for equality blinds the utopian to the fact that society, as a whole, is based on inequality of men in two… — Thomas Steven Molnar Copy Share Image
“...a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Blaire, This teardrop represents many things. The tears I know you’ve shed over holding your mother’s piece of satin. The tears you’ve… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Learning is not automatic. You do not automatically know how to read because you turn five. Most of us are sensitive to… — Marion D. Hanks Copy Share Image
We are beautifully imperfect beings, operating in a very imperfect world, and that is just the way it is meant to be.… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand is no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
I absolutely believe that, come November 2012, I'm going to be governor of New Jersey and not in any other office. But… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
I was largely drinking to forget where I was. When you’re in a place like Vietnam, you get to a point where… — Si Robertson Copy Share Image
You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
We didn't create the culture of film. We certainly market it better than anyone in the world, but film could have happened… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Many scales of climate change are in fact natural, from the slow tectonic scale, to the fast changes embedded within glacial and… — Anthony D. Barnosky Copy Share Image
It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me.… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
The distance at which all shooting weapons take effect screens the killer against the stimulus sensation which would otherwise activate his killing… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
I think that intelligent forecasting (company revenues, earnings, etc.) should not seek to predict what will in fact happen in the future.… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
People say that poverty is bad, but in fact poverty is good. The poorer people are, the more revolutionary they are. It… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In 5,000 years of recorded human history... neither in the east or in the west... has any society ever defined marriage as… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A doctor is not criticized for describing the manifestations and symptoms of an illness, even though the symptoms may be disgusting. I… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No matter what kind of advice and prompting you receive from parents, teachers, advisors, and peers, if you honestly listen to your… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation--a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Women not only get violated, but then we take on the struggle to end it too... As a man, how could the… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There is the fact that - people have had a lot of confidence that the Chinese leadership could fix what is wrong… — David Wessel Copy Share Image
I've always liked rooms where the party hasn't started yet...I love the feeling that anything could happen. After the party, when anything… — Jillian Lauren Copy Share Image
Thought ... is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately ... no other… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60… — Alison Sweeney Copy Share Image