“When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained,… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
It was an axiom of "containment" that no part of the known world could be considered neutral. "Neutralism" was among the Cold… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
“We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
You can "prove" anything on the verbal level, just be accepting the necessary axioms at the beginning. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke. — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible. — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“The power of these first two axioms will be what everything that follows is built on. Yet everything that follows is merely… — Shanti Christo Foundation Copy Share Image
Fanon calls his ideology a new humanism, not only in contrast to the elite humanism of the West, but also on the… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied… — Childe Hassam Copy Share Image
“The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I am asked if I would not be gratified if my friends would procure me promotion to a brigadier-generalship. My feeling is… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
A crucial difference between lite libertarians and the right kind is that to the former, the idea of liberty is propositional -… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so… — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;"… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image