An intelligent couple can read their Darwin and know that the ultimate reason for their sexual urges is procreation. They know that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now, is it the case that Facebook is actually run by U.S. intelligence? No, it's not like that. It's simply that U.S.… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Sugar crystallizes something in our American Soul. It is emblematic of all Industrial Processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
Only the man who follows the command of Jesus single-mindedly, and unresistingly lets his yoke rest upon him, finds his burden easy,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
What about desserts?" I asked. "If the world comes to an end, I'm going to want cookies." "We're all going to want… — Susan Beth Pfeffer Copy Share Image
We all have an inner teacher, an inner guide, an inner voice that speaks very clearly but usually not very loudly. That… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
women's entry into the public sphere can be seen not merely as the result of contemporary economic pressures, the high rate of… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
I have played for Real Madrid, which is such a big club and where the pressure is so huge because you have… — Mesut Ozil Copy Share Image
It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
Anything from making a mistake on an experiment that would ruin some scientist on earth's experiment - career, potentially - to doing… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
The percentage of mentally disturbed people in the United States is very high. From the time the American gets up in the… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
You can do as much training, the hardest training, and you might get there and not perform how you wanted, not because… — Emma McKeon Copy Share Image
I grew up on the beach and played side-out scoring all my life, but rally scoring is better for our sport. There… — Holly McPeak Copy Share Image
You don't know who you will fall in love with. You just don't. You don't control it. Some people have certain things,… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
I am happy that we are not favorites. To be very honest it's big pressure of being favorites. We were not favorites… — Waqar Younis Copy Share Image
Mum was a high-jumper and qualified to go to the Olympics, but it got into the newspapers that she was married to… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
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I worked closely with Steve Peters, the British Cycling team's psychologist, and we came up with a strategy of dealing with the… — Chris Hoy Copy Share Image
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There's a reason people pause their lives to engage in political activism and pressure their local political leaders. Because as a whole,… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Some players are bought by other clubs with an eye to them developing into something special in a few years' time. Whereas… — Ed Woodward Copy Share Image
If the going is tough and the pressure is on, If the reserves of strength have been drained and the summit is… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I hear, more than ever, people actively searching for women to direct, actively wanting to finance women's films, which is not to… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact she does not know to this day if those words were spoken, or if he only caught… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Walmart's period of explosive growth coincided with decades of wage stagnation and deindustrialization. By applying relentless downward pressure on prices and wages,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Maybe the biggest award show of the largest entertainment importer in the world needs an economic incentive to embrace diversity. Indeed, maybe… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored… — Lerone Bennett, Jr Copy Share Image
The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy, moreover, is likely to be perverse. High interest rates enter into costs and thus… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
The one who doesn't fall doesn't stand up. It happens that I was made kind of an idol. Everybody loses. That happens.… — Fedor Emelianenko Copy Share Image
The pressure to perform is relentless in today's workplace - regardless of where you work. We are all being asked to do… — Willow Bay Copy Share Image
The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
One thing I've had to realize in my career is that I can't do it all. Sometimes we put a lot of… — Randy Houser Copy Share Image
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Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
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