When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication… — Dan Sperber Copy Share Image
My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse of aggregate… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
In most cases, to be reasonable means not to be obstinate, which in turn points to conformity with reality as it is.… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Darwin found out that when you took horses up to the high country in the Middle East, they would then grow long… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Having seen Justin's work on Bleak House, I knew that he'd be incredibly well prepared and interesting stylistically for this and that… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Either philosophy reinforces communal beliefs, in which case it is pointless; or else it is at odds with those beliefs, in which… — Georges Canguilhem Copy Share Image
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In Germany, many other countries, college tuition is free. Why isn`t free in America? Why do we have the highest rate of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I talk to my fan club members, and I blog, and they know what's going on. But as far as Twitter, I'll… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is… — Tom Regan Copy Share Image
Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where… — Democritus Copy Share Image
Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases. — Nancy Leveson Copy Share Image
American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
Our young immigrants have a lot to offer. They are motivated and hard-working, and in many cases have already contributed significantly to… — Gerald Chertavian Copy Share Image
I think Syriza and Podemos are very, very different from Sinn Féin in many ways, and so I wouldn't put all three… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are. — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
As the United States chains itself down with greater debt, China is building relationships across the globe to bolster its trade, its… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image