The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the…

I have good taste, that's the one thing I'm cocky about.

— Ryan Phillippe

“It was easy to find things she would like. Our taste was the same, it had been from the first. It would be impossible…

— James Salter

He ordered food with a childlike glee and watched me eat, tasting it as I did. In private he'd roll on his back like…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the danger of…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue…

— Thomas Jefferson

When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The implosion of…

— Chuck Hagel

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public…

— Matt Blunt

Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

In the late 60s, 70s and possibly early 80s, social scientists were interested in researching the diffusion of innovation and studying the link between…

— Ruth Simmons

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of…

— Daniel Webster

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are…

— Harriet Martineau

The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization…

— Carl L. Becker

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any…

— Joseph Cook

There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce…

— Ezra Stiles