If you can accept the flow of life and give in to it, you will be accepting what is real. Only when… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I think blogging and the ability to instantaneously respond to news items has changed the way we approach all media. We're seeing… — Rachel Kramer Bussel Copy Share Image
It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all...… — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
It's a very teenage idea - this idea that thought is ruined when we give over to television shows and glossy magazines… — John Maus Copy Share Image
The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
Wage work is disappearing. I didn't make the jobs disappear, but they have disappeared. And people are forced to be looking for… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner. — John Bayley Copy Share Image
Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
I think that the Vietnam War era is important because we tend not to want to revisit it. For black people, there… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
You can almost convince yourself that you've accomplished things just by thinking about them. The alternative is to be more realistic. You… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
And what is the reaction of the British politcal class? Well the Lib Dems, still think that the Euro is a success!… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence" achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Always remembering that we might be wrong, we must contemplate alternatives, concoct hedges, and search vigilantly for validation of our assessments. We… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
I want here to make three suggestions: first, that the doubts the ordinary man feels about religion are justified, and need not… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure… — Payne Stewart Copy Share Image
