Atoms have a nucleus, made of protons and neutrons bound together. Around this nucleus shells of electrons spin, and each shell is… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself; it is the only thing in all creation that is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Genuine transcendence doesn't just look away from human suffering and say, "I am at peace, so I'm at the mountaintop." Genuine transcendence… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because… — Henri Weenink Copy Share Image
The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
Excess consumption doesn't make people happy. We can continue to provide for our needs, but we can't continue the endless pursuit of… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is.… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
The Gospel of the army is cunning, as of all other human activities. The wisdom of the snake under the meekness of… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of strength to hold onto and care for the things we love, so why is it that god… — Ai Yazawa Copy Share Image
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every word you utter to another human being has an effect, but you don't know it. If people begin to understand that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Originally this was the most important thing about martial arts - to reach a higher level, to become a strong human being.… — Tsutomu Ohshima Copy Share Image
When I was in Holland, the idea was, all cultures are equal and all are to be preserved. My idea was, no,… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
[John Carlos] has spent much of his life since that time as a dedicated human rights advocate and public speaker, and he… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
It's impossible to overstate how my relationship to music forms a preserve for the esoteric or even spiritual aspect of my relationship… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
"Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
There are as many kinds of missionaries as there are human beings. There are the terrible, colonialist power-grabbers, still, and there are… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Warren Buffett has said many times that people either get value investing in five minutes or they won't get it in five… — Mohnish Pabrai Copy Share Image
I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Maui is a beautiful island. It's really the site of an ancient civilization that we've forgotten about, a civilization that existed millions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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