Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything. — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture. — Winston Damarillo Copy Share Image
[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
At a certain point in history monuments became associated with kitsch, (it had never previously been so) and one might well ask… — Gillo Dorfles Copy Share Image
We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
I didn’t and don’t want to be a ‘feminine’ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The dragons I would write about would not be the rather generalized, big, green things that I had read about in storybooks.… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the Moon… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image