I asked inmate in New York, Warden Fay at that time if, if it didn't make a better inmate out of the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The percept is the reality. It is not in propositional form. But the most immediate judgment concerning it is abstract. It is… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your… — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
Porgy is...an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
Whoso turns his attention to the bitter strifes of these days and seeks a reason for the troubles that vex public and… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
I am one of those who believe that there is no permanent home for even a section of the Bantu in the… — P. W. Botha Copy Share Image
On a day-to-day basis, you get tired of waiting to be accepted. In show business, someone else has to say that you're… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which, because of… — Pope Gregory XVI Copy Share Image
And this was the main precondition, that anything might be something else. Once I'd accepted that, it followed that I might be… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance,… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
It obviously makes a difference whether we consider ourselves as pawns in a game whose rules we call reality or as players… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
I asked myself, 'What are you going to do with your life? Are you going to be like everyone else or are… — Luke Scott Copy Share Image
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
My guard will run you through if he catches you looking at my face," said Arianna. "I don't think so. I think… — Mary Hoffman Copy Share Image
Leibniz accepted the argument that there must be indestructible simple entities if there is to be a complex world, but Epicurean morals… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
My dancing came about as a way to be cool, actually. I knew early on that I was not a street kid.… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
This person had arrived, he had illuminated her, he had ensorcelled her with notions of miracle and beauty, he had both understood… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The plan to carve up British India was never approved of or accepted by Gandhi...who realised too late that his closest comrades… — Stanley Wolpert Copy Share Image
Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
When I started acting, I hoped I could make some kind of positive contribution to this world. When I get a letter… — Sung Kang Copy Share Image
I couldn't lie anymore to my kids telling them that they are equal citizens in the state of Israel. They cannot be… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case.… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The color of the prisoner's skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Self-immolation as a way to protest against the injustices or as a way to fight for freedom cannot be accepted! All the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Comrades ! You have voluntarily accepted a mission that is the noblest that the human mind can conceive of. For the fulfillment… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The place of electronic music, culturally and socially, is today completely different - it is now everywhere, and it has been totally… — Thomas Bangalter Copy Share Image
The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction, after a full and impartial examination of all the evidence… — Robert P. McCulloch Copy Share Image
Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
The generally accepted theory is that financial markets tend towards equilibrium, and...discount the future correctly. I operate using a different theory, according… — George Soros Copy Share Image
What sets Christian spiritual activity apart from all other religions is that they have knowledge of Christ as their goal; not moral… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
