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The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The ultimate objective [of comedy] is to get a laugh, so if you can get a laugh off the fact that you… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
We can't ... take that piece of reality in this business and set that aside and say, well, that doesn't count. And… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered… — Peter Kline Copy Share Image
Just as love blinds us to imperfections in others, it magnifies those we see in ourselves. But if this is true, then… — Tonya Hurley Copy Share Image
Above all, documentary must reflect the problems and realities of the present. It cannot regret the past; it is dangerous to prophesy… — Paul Rotha Copy Share Image
Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
In college, when I was kind of confronted with facts and figures about inequality in America, a big impulse I had was… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
It is not enough to say, 'We are Muslims and have an ideology or our own': we must also be in a… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature!… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough… — Alan Bishop Copy Share Image
In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos the "intellectual sacrifice" is the decisive characteristic of the positively religious man. That this… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing. With writing, you take a set of facts and… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
I hate the word mentor, the professionalization of friendships between generations. I just feel like the fact of friendship is the thing… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The evidence from both approaches, statistical and experimental, does not appear sufficiently significant to me to warrant forsaking the pleasure of smoking.… — Harry S.N. Greene Copy Share Image
Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more.… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
We stand with Israel as a Jewish democratic state because we know that Israel is born of firmly held values that we,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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Actually," Clary said, "I think he stayed because of me." Jace's glaze flicked up to hers with a flash of gold. "Because… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It's a secret language, known to all different people, in different ways, that enables them to read a subliminal message without realising… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
Suppose that I see a hungry child in the street, and I am able to offer the child some food. Am I… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The command of a large sum is a dangerous temptation to a national administration. Though accumulated at their expense, the people rarely,… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: The power of belief, the power of thought, will move reality in the direction of what we believe… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in… — Sharon Gless Copy Share Image
Our Jewishness is not a creed, it is ourself, our totality. Indeed, it may be fairly said that the surest evidence of… — Maurice Samuel Copy Share Image
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I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes… — Jose Canseco Copy Share Image
[My photography teacher] gave me the Mexican Day Books of Edward Weston and just blew me away with this work. The fact… — Max Pam Copy Share Image
I believe everything is one thing only. That said, there are some questions in my life that I don't know.. I've stopped… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In the area of trading, it is now an academically demonstrated fact that women tend to be a little bit more risk-adverse.… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image