All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When I graduated high school, nearly a half-million people subscribed to 'Popular Electronics' magazine. Soldering up some radio or hi-fi amplifier on… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the… — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston,… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
When you start a political party, you are creating space for yourself. So many people were shocked when they realized that I… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects. They demand a strict regimentation of time, and, by abolishing the… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe in fishermen, I believe in… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Prior to and during [John] Locke's time, it was difficult to determine where religion or church left off and government or state… — Jayne Meadows Copy Share Image
I didn't worry about my career ending, but there were days where I felt pretty beat up by it all and just… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
The facts [on immigration system ] aren't known because the media won't report on them. The politicians won't talk about them and… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
All this, the positive and physical essence of mechanics, which makes its chief and highest interest for a student of nature, is… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terrorists are exploiting those centuries-old problems to accomplish… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
What central banks can control is a base and one way they can control the base is via manipulating a particular interest… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal,… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
You could tell from the books whether a library was meant for show or not. Books that were used had an open,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
My mom used to sell fabric and lace when I was younger. She would bring back these elaborate fabrics from Nigeria. I… — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of… — Santha Rama Rau Copy Share Image
Now it's of peculiar interest to an Arab country that there is a company and a certain set of bankers who also… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six… — Jamie Muir Copy Share Image
Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
The burden of the national debt consists not in its being so many millions, or so many hundred millions, but in the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
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Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
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