...instead of giving a rifle to somebody, build a school; instead of giving a rifle, build a community with adequate services. Instead… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
People who are burdened by acute misgivings about their coping capabilities suffer much distress and expend much effort in defensive action... they… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare,… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject… — Plato Copy Share Image
All the world’s major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness, can and do promote inner values. But… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is our argument that a sufficiently low price can turn a security of mediocre quality into a sound investment opportunity -… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
If humanity today succeeds in combining the new scientific capacities with a strong ethical dimension, it will certainly be able to promote… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
When I first joined the Irvine Company, I realized that less than 11,000 acres were designated as open space in the original… — Donald Bren Copy Share Image
My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
THIS IS THE WAY OF PEACE: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love... My simple peace message is… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The only leverage the manufacturer can apply to the retailer is his relationship with the consumer. And the main element in profit… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
To know whether you can trust a particular intuitive judgment, there are two questions you should ask: Is the environment in which… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Climate alarmists believe in their own omnipotency, in knowing better than millions of rationally behaving men and women what is right or… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (…) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a… — Denys Johnson-Davies Copy Share Image
I told him that for a modern scientist, practicing experimental research, the least that could be said, is that we do not… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
It is extremely important that adequate provision be made for reasonable levels of income to them, for the care of the children… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter,… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
I don't think that our problem, our jobs problem, is fundamentally a problem of trade. I think it has much more to… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Life and work are not things apart. Work is more than gaining privileges and possessions; it is ongoing, ecstatic, LIVING experience. When… — Laurence Boldt Copy Share Image
Childbirth is a wonderful thing, but the reality is that it can dramatically change a woman's body. SUI occurs when the vaginal… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Water is one of the most basic of all needs - we cannot live for more than a few days without it.… — Robert Alan Aurthur Copy Share Image
You've got to reach towards a better language, and you're not going to make it up from scratch; you've got to reach… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
Christianity is realistic because it says that if there is no truth, there is also no hope; and there can be no… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The government and its prosecutors are continually trying to block my efforts to win my freedom and expose their judicial wrong doings;… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
