But the human character, however it may be exalted or depressed by a temporary enthusiasm, will return by degrees to its proper… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
What we've found is a whole new pattern of change that we hadn't thought of before. They changed their attitude toward the… — William M. Kelso Copy Share Image
The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of… — Fernand Braudel 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
That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another. God said, 'Thou shalt not kill'; at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile… — Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle 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
At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We have all been hypnotized into thinking that we are smaller than we are. Just as an undersized flowerpot keeps a mighty… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to… — Bill Gates 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
Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our… — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
On the one hand, our minds try to probe the ephemeral reality of the quantum world; on the other, we talk, think,… — F. David Peat Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my… — Calista Flockhart Copy Share Image
We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one… — Samuel Butler 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
The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be… — Lars Leksell Copy Share Image
Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult… — Norm Dicks Copy Share Image
As gang members, as young dudes in the streets, especially in L.A., we're the effect of a situation. We didn't wake up… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, "I want to do it!" But in our schools,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there… — Antony Starr Copy Share Image
Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit,… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I believe at its core we have a Constitution, as our Supreme Court's first great justice, Marshall, said in 1819, and I… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always… — Steve Yzerman Copy Share Image
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details, which must be attended to if rules… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be… — George Packer Copy Share Image
As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to… — Billy Sheehan Copy Share Image
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