Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Before computers were everywhere I used record books, the old-fashioned way. I loved to cram, and I still love to cram, anything… — Steve Bunce Copy Share Image
I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. In fact,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The fascination with Judas has persisted despite the fact that there is no evidence of the hard facts of his life. Even… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
The fact that both Jews and Christians ignore some of God's or Jesus's commands, but scrupulously obey others, is absolute proof that… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Sir Alex has a special place in my life. In fact, he was the main man. I was not famous, I was… — Cristiano Ronaldo Copy Share Image
I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
When I finally got together with Rostropovich as a student, he was very focused, almost entirely focused on the music itself, on… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a… — Claudia Roth Pierpont Copy Share Image
What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
'Mediocre' tends to mean 'undistinguished', while snobs enjoy their distinguishing hallmarks of style - how they wear clothes, use words, where they… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference - to be of genuine… — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
The President's science advisor, who is a former Harvard professor named Holdren, is involved in the email scandals and covering up the… — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
You can't get a leopard to change his spots. In fact, now that I come to think of it, you can't really… — Geoffrey K. Pullum Copy Share Image
The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and… — William James Copy Share Image
Since the Moi era, or 'error' as I call it, prime jobs have been stuffed with semi-literate Kalenjin herdsmen. I imagined that… — Raila Odinga Copy Share Image
Reading for pleasure can easily sound like some kind of wishy-washy, soft option, while instructional stuff like learning-to-read through 'synthetic phonics' and… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they… — Victor Francis Hess Copy Share Image
The media will spend weeks going through pay stubs for Bush's National Guard service in Alabama in the waning days of war,… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
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Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they… — John Green Copy Share Image
Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The fact was, by the time she got to high school, being weird and proud of it was an asset. Suddenly cool,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In the past few months I've become religious, I've started to believe in god, creationism and intelligent design, and the reason that… — Stewart Lee Copy Share Image
To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive.… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The idea of Socialism is at once grandiose and simple. . .We may say, in fact, that it is one of the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I've accepted the fact that because I'm human, I'm terrific in one thing, good at some, mediocre at a bit more, and… — Bo Sanchez Copy Share Image
The different colors [of water] again refer to the fact that those little jacks, if you want to call them jacks, those… — Ira Flatow Copy Share Image
The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Once you start backing into all of that, then you see this incredibly intricate, totally wrong-headed way to do things, but nevertheless… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
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