Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
I like making sure that I've got a decent haircut, my beard's a decent length. I trim it once a week and… — Patrick Grant Copy Share Image
The underlying attraction of the movement of water and sand is biological. If we look more deeply we can see it as… — Geoffrey Jellicoe Copy Share Image
A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
We must each prepare ourselves for every good work that might come to us and then accept the principle that revelation, not… — Monte J. Brough Copy Share Image
Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
For example, the insurance industries and the big banks are absolutely euphoric now - on the business pages they don't even conceal… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
There is no strong evidence to prove significant human influence on climate on a global basis. The global cooling trend from 1940… — Peter Stilbs Copy Share Image
It appears that a simple rule, of something adhering to another similar idea, repeated, leads to stabilities. This seems to be a… — Cecil Balmond Copy Share Image
Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other's… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I talked to Minister [Louis] Farrakhan many times about this subject - there is our reality that we have to deal with… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
As an organisation [Not for Sale] we use social media on a daily basis as a way to share the impact of… — David Batstone Copy Share Image
Everything which might cause doubt about the wisdom of the government or create discontent will be kept from the people. The basis… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
On a nationwide basis, I would guess that the various churches would have to pay annually an amount at least equal to… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
There was a point at which I thought I'd never get the most valuable player, especially the years I played at Minnesota.… — Rod Carew Copy Share Image
As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image