I believe that any individual who has spiritually awakened in our time, to the degree that he or she finds a higher… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
If you are a cooperative animal you need to watch what you get. If you, or even a whole community, invest in… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
You'll find many markets where bottlers of Pepsi and Coke both make a lot of money and many others where they destroy… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
At Rome there were nothing even vaguely resembling modern political parties - although given the stifling impact of these, this may well… — Adrian Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
I wanted to be supportive of parents rather than to scold them. The book set out very deliberately to counteract some of… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live… Our… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Of course, both [Oscar] Wilde & [Vladimir] Nabokov believe in many things, and these things emerge in their writing clearly - for… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Individuals for whom no orthodox cure is available surely are entitled to select a health care approach…This right (is) specifically within,,,the 1st,… — Luther L. Bohanon Copy Share Image
The object of our being placed upon this earth is that we may work out an exaltation, that we may prepare ourselves… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When you are thinking about whether you have an obligation to try to save people's lives, you don't usually think, well, how… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
We are not here to advocate abortion. We do not ask this Court to rule that abortion is good or desirable in… — Sarah Weddington Copy Share Image
You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is… — Dale Archer Copy Share Image
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes -… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
Developing characters is a collective process, on one hand; it's an individual process on the other. The truth is rarely pure and… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
As we celebrate Thanksgiving, we should reflect on the full meaning of this day as we enjoy the fellowship that is so… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
What would you think of a person who earned $24,000 a year but spent $35,000? Suppose on top of that, he was… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
I have to say, I think that we are in some kind of final examination as to whether human beings now, with… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again...… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Writers and reporters need to remind themselves they're not to be judged solely by the number of clicks or eyeballs on a… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I think that it is not right to deny a constitutional right based on simple, derogatory information that's been reported but not… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
All the people constitute the militia - according to the Founding Fathers. Therefore every able-bodied man has a duty under the Constitution… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
For the protection of the community, of individual life and health, there are some necessities that should be provided for all at… — Theodore Newton Vail Copy Share Image
Such is the grace and power of baptism; not an overwhelming of the world as of old, but a purification of the… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
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