Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
And people are so het up about the fact I'm in the theatre - it's like, 'Ooh these telly names, can they… — Joanna Page Copy Share Image
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[The scientist] believes passionately in facts, in measured facts. He believes there are no bad facts, that all facts are good facts,… — Robert Watson-Watt Copy Share Image
What the American Dream means to me is the fact that - what founded this country - when I think about those… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whoever is full of wisdom is naturally compassionate; in fact we recognize that someone has gained spiritual wisdom by seeing their compassionate… — Ravi Ravindra Copy Share Image
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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My final conclusion after 40 years or more in this business is that the unofficial policy of the World Health Organization and… — Archie Kalokerinos Copy Share Image
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Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact.… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
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Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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