President's personal staff has a unique role. They're his intimate personal advisers, and the tradition and the precedent has been, even when… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow… — Charles Mathias Copy Share Image
In a world in which we are exposed to more information, more options, more philosophies, more perspectives than ever before, in which… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
As long as there's a place for sundials and gardening and beautiful things, there's a place for the harpsichord. I completely reject… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
Meditation is the progressive quieting of our mind, until we reach the source of thought, which in wisdom traditions are the realm… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio. John’s… — Tim Willits Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate in that I've grown up in a worshipping tradition which is quite rich musically (and music is very important to… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do… — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
If you read philosophical texts of the tradition, you'll notice they almost never said 'I,' and didn't speak in the first person.… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“In the West, people learn through the Socratic tradition. The education system was influenced by Western philosophy and is based on constantly… — Sharanya Haridas Copy Share Image
In the mystic traditions of the different religions we have a remarkable unity of spirit. Whatever religion they may profess, they are… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
India is a very, very old country with a history, culture and tradition like Italy. And we can use the English language… — Luca Cordero di Montezemolo Copy Share Image
Remember, government is not an enlightened organization designed to promote public welfare. It is barbaric, uncivilized force…military and police power put to… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
The good news is that there is strong movement in this direction of shifting from domination systems to partnership systems. Over the… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
It is also an absolute mistake to believe that the State can be anything other than a civitas diaboli if it does… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
I've always thought New Year's Day was an especially American tradition, full of the optimism and hope we're famous for in our… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let it… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction:… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through endless years, On one he… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Everything is humanities. The sciences are a form of the humanities. They involve traditions of inquiry; they involve social engagement with ideas.… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
I was nurtured in the church; I went to a Catholic school; I was an altar boy; I went to a Catholic… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
If... [Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings… — George Perle Copy Share Image
I decided this early on at Justice: if the traditional way was the most effective way of doing something, then we'd maintain… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Everybody has their own way of remembering and every culture has their traditions. When you compare the similarities and differences to other… — Edward James Olmos Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we… — John Green Copy Share Image
The only form of revolution beneficial to the people is one which destroys the entire state to the roots and exterminates all… — Sergey Nechayev Copy Share Image
Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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