Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't know what your damage is, but in case you've failed to notice,we're in a bit of trouble here. Can you… — Alexandra Ivy Copy Share Image
A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is… — Dan Scanlon Copy Share Image
Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
The problem is not unique; the challenge is not unique to South Africa. Other African countries have faced it. But in our… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them,… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined. — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Most guys believe that they're supposed to know how to fix things. This is a responsibility that guys have historically taken upon… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case. — Nathan Hale Copy Share Image
The masks we wear are simply veils that we have chosen to hide behind in order to get our way, or to… — John Randolph Price Copy Share Image
The United States does not have a very good record in the Middle East. I think they have the best of intentions… — Moshe Arens Copy Share Image
I think you have a case of either 'testitis' or 'I Didn't Do My Homework Syndrome'. It's common in the Spring. — Ellen Schreiber Copy Share Image
Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience,… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
The development and deployment of drones and Cruise missiles involves the continuing development of the vision machine. Research on Cruise missiles is… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the United States and a few other governments have used the war on terrorism as a way of violating human rights.… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted… — Pia Zadora Copy Share Image
You are only allowed to treat the content of your intuition as evidence if the intuition stays after you have exposed it… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
In most cases I start off with a sketch. But I'm also thinking about real images: out of National Geographic, out of… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut. — Duane G. Carey Copy Share Image
It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving,… — S. S. Van Dine Copy Share Image
All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
