Pavel Palazchenko has given us a well-written, inside account of Gorbachev's and Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Remarkably objective, it is full of insights, makes… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“The old scholar looked at the sturdy figure in its plain calico dress; at the worn hands, busy with their homely task;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Many friends of mine told me that normally only guys like a kung fu movie and the girls would be turned off… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
To create a community of radical scholars, men and women who recognize that rules and social conventions are arbitrary, but have mastered… — Howard Adelman Copy Share Image
The Patriarch Joseph, after agreeing with the Latins that their formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Son meant the same… — Steven Runciman Copy Share Image
While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with… — Grey Owl Copy Share Image
“Oh, but I’m a scholar. I enjoy things with curious properties, and stupidity is most interesting. The more you study it, the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by… — George Ellwanger Copy Share Image
Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
(H)er qualifications for the Supreme Court are non-existent. She is not a brilliant jurist, indeed, has never been a judge. She is… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention… — Mel Gussow Copy Share Image
The vanishing of David Tang is like the unthinkable diappearance of a magnificent palace on a mythical mountaintop. He was a dreammaker,… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I do think that I have been fortunate to make friendships with other scholars, and form reading groups where ideas are exchanged… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to… — Werner Sollors Copy Share Image
“Scholars make things very easy for themselves. They stick a couple of old potsherds together, search for one or two adjacent cultures,… — Erich von Däniken Copy Share Image
How can you work on letting your thoughts go and getting synchronized into the moment and questioning your wild imagination. But I… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The (Supreme Court) ruling that anyone who's arrested -- even accidentally -- can be strip-searched was decided five to four, with the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
[Silvio] Gesell's chiefwork is written in cool and scientific terms, although it is run through by a more passionate and charged devotion… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Good scholars struggle to understand the world in an integral way (pedants bite off tiny bits and worry them to death). These… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense… — Nathan M. Pusey Copy Share Image
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
“The thought that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something… — Ronald Dworkin Copy Share Image
I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep… — Margaret Caroline Anderson Copy Share Image
The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
What suggests to non-Evangelical scholars that the resurrection narratives contain legendary accounts? First there is a variety of apparent contradictions in the… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
I think the level of casualties is secondary... [A]ll the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion… — Michael A. Ledeen Copy Share Image
![“[Silvio] Gesell's chiefwork is written in cool and scientific terms, although it is run through by a more passionate and charged devotion to social justice than many think fit for a scholar. I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell then from that of Marx.” quote by John Maynard Keynes](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ddd/john-maynard-keynes-1380_believe_silvio-gesell-s-chiefwork-is-written-in_2003081.jpg)
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