As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those… — Dilma Rousseff Copy Share Image
There are times when one cannot accept facts for fear of shattering one's being. As I listened to Ian's news, all of… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
I love short stories. They're like small imploding universes. They are very tightly bound and controlled. I'd been wanting to write one… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow,… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Maybe he hadn't thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it, with a glorious… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I want my legacy to be that I was a man of character, I was a God fearing man and somebody who… — Andre Ward Copy Share Image
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Unlike rational thought, intuition cannot be 'taught' or even turned on. In fact, it is impossible to find or manipulate this intuitive… — Tom Hoover Copy Share Image
You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
As an adult I discovered that I was a pretty good autodidact, and can teach myself all kind of things. And developed… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Every single American can exclaim, 'Nothing justifies what they did in New York and Washington,' not even the bombs that our government… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
FACT: The Priory of Sion - a European secret society founded in 1099 - is a real organization. In 1975 Paris's Bibliothque… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
It seems to be a general belief that the will of God is to make things distasteful for us, like taking bad-tasting… — Charles L. Allen Copy Share Image
One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
Happiness can seem like an abstract, transcendent notion, but in fact, I found that getting enough sleep (very important!!), getting exercise, not… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
The Republicans have picked that as the one thing that they want to hang on to to try to gain some political… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Where I would like to discover facts, I find fancy. Where I would like to learn what I did, I learn only… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
It is an unfortunate fact that great and foolish excess can come into prices of common stocks in the aggregate. They are… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The Declaration has a moral power which is of enormous weight and influence. The statement of the rights represent a goal, or… — H. V. Evatt Copy Share Image
I write about situations that are common, universal might be more correct, in which my characters are involved and from which only… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
It turns out, in fact, that 'theories of meaning' are typically not about meaning in an everyday or 'folk' sense at all.… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that Romance would come her way yet—never, until this wet,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fact that you have government-guaranteed student loans has created a whole new sector in the American economy that didn't really exist… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Sex itself only only exists in relation to procreation. That's one of the reasons why I sometimes object, and it's just a… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
I want to say something, and it may sound harsh, not to you, but to the American people. In a sense, in… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Once we make our relationship choices in an adult way, a prospective partner who is unavailable, nonreciprocal, or not open to processing… — David Richo Copy Share Image
When it’s all said and done I would like to look back and think that I help to make modelling a possibility… — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born. We are constantly remarking on the fact that… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
