The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that… — William Allman Copy Share Image
Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
The idea that we would raise billions of sentient animals, treat them horribly, pollute our waterways with their waste, compromise the effectiveness… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Obama has always been, while President, has been close to the Queen of England, and the Queen of England has a standing… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Beside the two wars he inherited in Iraq and Afghanistan, and promised to end, a financial crisis at home had pushed the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Seasteads cost money, and if you want to succeed as a Seastead you have to find ways to attract people to move… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
I've been seeing the change. It's been steady. It's been more controlled than people think. And my own belief is that China… — Jeffrey R. Immelt Copy Share Image
The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses. — Ric Keller Copy Share Image
A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
In other words, people should be placed in parks within ecosystems instead of parks placed in human communities. We need vast areas… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
[I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
When you awaken to what I call the Authentic Self, which is the spiritual or evolutionary impulse, what begins to emerge is… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
They [Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz] will never give peace a chance because they are saying the moment they are elected, the… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
In FY 2006, interest payments alone on the national debt cost us $406 billion. . . . What a waste. . .… — Bill Press Copy Share Image
Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system? — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image