The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization… — Thomas Mellon Copy Share Image
Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I… — Judith Moore Copy Share Image
A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
I chose to stylize 'Among Friends' and add a dark comedic element because I didn't want to get pigeonholed as a genre… — Danielle Harris Copy Share Image
I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its… — Avi Copy Share Image
You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they… — Horace Copy Share Image
Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues. — Ernie Fletcher Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, 'I don't want to be… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than… — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
There's a feeling among some people that the Republican party is harsh on some things. — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
Meat supplies a variety of nutrients - among them iron, zinc, and Vitamin B12 - that are not readily found in plants.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
True, most Americans give lip service to the proposition that even the most exalted among us have their flaws, but we are… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
For a heterosexual man - I know that's a hotly debated topic, but only among those who don't know me - I… — Rodger Berman Copy Share Image
The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in… — Rudolf Hiferding Copy Share Image
I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
It has always been inevitable that, living as a small minority among a Christian majority, some Jews would convert to Christianity. — David Novak Copy Share Image
In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained… — Kenneth Joseph Arrow Copy Share Image
In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
