Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and… — Hosni Mubarak Copy Share Image
"Respecting" means concerning or with reference to. But it also means with respect~ that is "reverence," "good-will," "regard" to. Taking into account… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
[Albert] Camus always insisted that historical criteria and historical reasoning were not the only things to take into account, and that they… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
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... do not listen to vain and empty talk, in which the majority of world-loving people spend their time, and do not… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
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The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
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I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Trusting others puts us at risk. Yet failure to trust entails risk as well. The ability to navigate through this minefield successfully… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
I think what I'm after, a lot of the time, is just honesty. What accounts for the fact that the stories we… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
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The best helps to growth in grace are the ill usage, the affronts, and the losses which befall us. We should receive… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It's completely different, for instance, to report on poor farmers in Africa than it is to report on, say, poor African-Americans. The… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed… — Charles Thom Copy Share Image
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I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
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Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
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