Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Praise causes the presence of the Lord to come into our midst. Even though God is omniscient, He manifests His authority and… — Chuck Pierce Copy Share Image
Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates disposition, warps character,… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate--how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If you had told me when I was at high school that one day I would be working for a for-profit company,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I fear that I am losing my mind. But really, it would not be such a precious thing to lose, as it… — L.A. Meyer Copy Share Image
The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty,… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life. To come into full ralization of your own awakened interior powers… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Fresh pitsand, however, in spite of all its excellence in concrete structures, is not equally useful in stucco, the richness of which,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
“This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts… — Charles Peguy Copy Share Image
May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I'm a thespian. I don't like to improv. I don't like to go off course 'cause I think that's where stuff happens.… — Regina Hall Copy Share Image
This might be a controversial thing to suggest, but in a quest to understand and relate to terrorism or school shootings, sometimes… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
