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
More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most… — Plato Copy Share Image
Is an audience open to seeing a film that isn't what they expect when they see a film that's been adapted from… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
We humans have always been resilient. With each industrial revolution, we have adapted, creating new jobs with new technologies. — Hari Sreenivasan Copy Share Image
“If you are a sea level adapted human and your employer requires you to sleep at high altitude, you should change jobs… — Steven Magee 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
There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern… — Noam Chomsky 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
The church must seek to be biblical rather than relevant. We are not going to leave a mark upon our culture because… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
When I first watched 'Coraline,' I thought , 'If that ever got adapted...' If it was done by real actors, I think… — Maisie Williams Copy Share Image
The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render… — David F. Houston Copy Share Image
Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
The pejorative term 'political correctness' was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in… — Jeremy Sisto 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
America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
I have adapted the whole book [Candid] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I could easily go through all my books and mark the ones that were original, mark the ones that were adapted or… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
It's a scary, exhilarating thing to have your work adapted by someone else. There are so many ways it can go wrong… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor… — Emily Murphy Copy Share Image
The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Whence it is evident that the remedy must be adapted to the particular cause of the mischief; consequently, the cause must be… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody. — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I'm very opinionated about movie musicals when they're adapted from live shows. You'll sit still for a three-minute song in a theater.… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I think it's a tribute to the artistic importance of hip-hop culture and what hip-hop has brought into music and fashion and… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
We are more than the sum of our biochemical functions. Even the tiniest flea is an incredibly complex living creature, with mouth-parts… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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