Some major problems can be solved by our political process and our leaders. Others can be solved only when there is popular… — James Stone Copy Share Image
We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Insistence on having a sexual orientation in sex is about defending the status quo, maintaining sex differences and the sexual hierarchy; whereas… — John Stoltenberg Copy Share Image
The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
No insistence in the Scripture is more pressing than that we must pray...How clear it is, when the Bible is consulted, that… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things .… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“This is why a woman needs to combine niceness with insistence, a style that Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas - beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Why is there such insistence that AGW has occurred and needs drastic solutions? This is a puzzle, but my short answer is… — Don Aitkin Copy Share Image
The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the best book in the world - and I… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an… — Mary Frances Berry Copy Share Image
The real problem is not the religion itself, but its insistence that the interpretation it offers of the world is the only… — Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal Copy Share Image
The moment of writing is not an escape...it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that… — Larry Levis Copy Share Image
The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political,… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
Be not held back by fear's insane insistence that sureness lies in doubt. I am not doubtful, but certain. The miracle is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long… — Daniel Burnham Copy Share Image
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Although the church has often been far too slow to follow his lead, Jesus' insistence that women, as well as men, bear… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
If you read history, right, if you read [Mikhail] Gorbachev's memoirs, Gorbachev memoirs said the key thing in winning the Cold War… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
The word 'phobic' has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Woodrow Wilson administration ended in tragedy, with his insistence on governing following his disabling stroke. I suspect President Wilson is often graded… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the… — J. R. D. Tata Copy Share Image
I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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