Given how long philosophers have been at conceptual analysis (I mean the 20th century stuff), and how many have been doing it,… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
With knowledge now the key raw material for creating all economic wealth, the new power struggles will reach deep into our minds… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best stuff that Cicero wrote, in the first century in Rome, were the Philippics, a series of speeches that he delivered… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
The Information Age is, first and foremost, an education age, in which education must start at birth and continue throughout a lifetime.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Yes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
In the eighties and nineties, the innovation agenda was exclusively focused on enterprises. There was a time in which economic and social… — Diogo Vasconcelos Copy Share Image
Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We have put the Cold War behind us. We no longer count our divisions and our warheads. And I am Russia's first… — Sergei Ivanov Copy Share Image
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The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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I think our initiative with respect to education and economic development can work in Saudi Arabia and it is up to the… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Our ancestors had displayed great strengths in space science. What people like Aryabhata had said centuries ago are being recognised by science… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
It will be enough to recall in th is sense that almost all the Countries arose, centuries ago, through cruel conquests. With… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way. ...… — Barbara De Angelis Copy Share Image
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I want to get the economy going again. It's not just enough about what we're against, as important as that is. I… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat… — Arthur Oncken Lovejoy Copy Share Image
But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The rich survive and everyone else gets ready to work 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 jobs and what do you get? Blade… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
We also wanted to change the story - change the approach to the 21st century on energy, on education, on transportation, on… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action,… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty,… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image