What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
What are the most important qualities that make a successful entrepreneur? The ability to communicate. The ability to express your idea with… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important .… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Again, the glory of one attribute is more seen in one work than in another: in some things there is more of… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Our investments continue to be few in number and simple in concept: The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and… — James Randi Copy Share Image
Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It's cool or it's crap. They mistake… — Jeffrey Zeldman Copy Share Image
This book [ "Win"] is based on the interviews with three dozen Fortune 400 - or Forbes 400, the richest people, and… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
Everybody naturally wants to abide in that highest frequency of the heart, and it is often through intimate relationships that we are… — John Friend Copy Share Image
I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The larger the government, the more our livings standards are reduced. We are fortunate as a civilization that the progress of free… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One way for attaining Bhakti is by repeating the name of God a number of times. Mantras have effect: the mere repetition… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Now, which am I to believe, a book that any impostor might make and call the Word of God, or the creation… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The first sign of love is when love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything. This is the real spiritual worship, the worship… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Sportsmanship is the ethical and moral dimension of sports. It is demonstrated by a number of attributes and attitudes such as fair… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
To follow Christ is to become more like Him. It is to learn from His character. As spirit children of our Heavenly… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
There are many names to Allah plus one you don't know. And each name is an attribute that flexes his characteristics: the… — RZA Copy Share Image
Laughter is key. Dancing a must. Because oh, how we do love both things! But most important, possess the ability to be… — Dianna Agron Copy Share Image
The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but… — Michel Chion Copy Share Image
Humility is an attribute of godliness possessed by true Saints. It is easy to understand why a proud man fails. He is… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain attributes, all of which are given full vent in 'The Day… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable; that when the real world is shut out, it… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the… — T. Coleman Andrews Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's… — Jim Wright Copy Share Image
According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Truthfulness is the foundation of all virtues of the world of humanity. Without truthfulness, progress and success in all the worlds of… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
If you're trying to cast the widest possible net to attract the largest selection of men or women, the last thing you… — Amy Webb Copy Share Image
Virgin, is how good you are with people. If you're - if you're good with people and you've got - you know,… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The universe shows us the life of God, or rather it is in itself the life of God. We behold in it… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. The Omnipotent Himself could never be supposed… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Whoever is full of wisdom is naturally compassionate; in fact we recognize that someone has gained spiritual wisdom by seeing their compassionate… — Ravi Ravindra Copy Share Image
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed,… — John Adams Copy Share Image