How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The relevant features of scientific practice often have mundane explanations which don't point to any deep metaphysical moral. (Thus it would simply… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
The other side of my work is political disappointment - the realization that we are living in an unjust world. "Blood is… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man.… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly; you have to work as hard to protect your… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are… — Anwar Ibrahim Copy Share Image
When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
I believe in any kind of personal growth practice that can help you gather the tools that you can then apply to… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
The love of wisdom is a way of life; that is to say, it's a set of practices that have to do… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The truth is, the first golf club I owned was an old left-handed, wooden-shafted, rib-faced mashie that a fellow gave me, and… — Ben Hogan Copy Share Image
One might say science is the sum total of our knowledge of the universe, the great library of the known, but the… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
I'd get out at school at 3:00 P.M., show up to dance practice at 6:30 P.M., practice for three hours till 9:00… — Jessie Reyez Copy Share Image
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
What is important is not getting intoxicated with a good feeling or getting intoxicated even with an insight. These take many forms… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by ... material honestly, through our own personal… — Peter Selgin Copy Share Image
Keep the remembrance of your real nature alive, even while working, and avoid haste which causes you to forget. Be deliberate. Practice… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
According to my views, aiming at quantitative investigations, that is at establishing relations between measurements of phenomena, should take first place in… — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Copy Share Image
I'm just going to be honest with you. It's hard to go out there and fight for 60 minutes when you're fighting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man practices the art of adventure when he heroically faces up to life. When he has the daring to open doors… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are… — Hayley Mills Copy Share Image
If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and… — George Cheyne Copy Share Image
Many people think that when we practice agriculture, nature is helping us in our efforts to grow food. This is an exclusively… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
The Internet, too, has strong attributes of a public good, and has undermined the “private good” attributes of old media. Internet service… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd be able to design all the things I've been able to design. I thought that I'd be far… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
“This doesn’t mean that you must practice everything seventy times before you have it Pitch Perfect. Some people need to do it… — Bill McGowan Copy Share Image
People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
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