States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the same way that we have a body and a soul and a spirit, our soul can't walk in the street… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a… — Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon Copy Share Image
Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence.… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In brief, the goal of sexual suppression is that of producing an individual who is adjusted to the authoritarian order and who… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The most important thing is that man should be the measure of all structures, including economic structures, and not that man be… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
We believe you will not have to pay more than the current rate structure proposes - which is, for 50 percent of… — Gray Davis Copy Share Image
the psychological attitudes which are indispensable in the American market place are disastrous to family life. Family life ... requires yieldingness, generosity,… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
...she could express her soul with that voice, whenver I listened to her I felt my life meant more than mere biology...she… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Fascist intellectuals, such as Ugo Spirito, made the round of conferences preaching the virtues of postcapitalism fascism and in fact tried to… — Charles S. Maier Copy Share Image
I think the reasons for not selecting persons like the Reverend Borders and John Wesley Dobbs were, in my book rather obvious… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
If you dread the thought of wasted time in meetings, chances are that your team members feel the same way. Team members… — Martin Zwilling Copy Share Image
America's egalitarian mandate reflects the liberality of the creator, and thus countermands, by divine witness, all feudal and aristocratic structures. It also… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
I personally feel it is presumptuous to believe that man can determine the whole temporal structure of the universe, its evolution, development… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers,… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
When you love a teacher very much - as I did Olivier Messiaen - you do have to leave them.One of the… — George Benjamin Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to,… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
It's not the subject of narration that interests me, but the structure. That's why I stay in touch with my old works,… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side,” is now out! Quote: “Vampires let us play with death… — Margot Adler Copy Share Image
“Saying that studying the brain is limited to the study of physical entities would be like saying that literary criticism must focus… — Douglas R. Hofstadter Copy Share Image
You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
He [liberal white person] may stand with you through thin, but not thick; when the chips are down, you'll find that as… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The structure of the company is constantly changing. The composition of the necessary working groups is constantly changing. We have many divisions… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to obviate failure,… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
I've been regulated my whole life. We have progressive taxes. It's not a free-market free-for-all. I completely understand that society has a… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful,… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
Beauty will result from the form and the correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts, of the parts with… — Andrea Palladio Copy Share Image
Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body.… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that the significance of 9/11 cannot be underestimated. It forces us to think in new ways about strategy,… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
The F.B.I. was very happy with the article they produced, which was entitled, "The Black Merchants of Hate," that came out in… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
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