If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
The 19th century Mormons, including some of my ancestors, were not eager to practice plural marriage. They followed the example of Brigham… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Years ago, when I was in Siena for the first time, I saw the works of Duccio, whose deeply emotional painting from… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Let's forget the novelties. If we prevail in prayer, God will do only what he can do. How he does things, when… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
It seemed perfectly possible that, in spite of my certainty of my own genius, I might die of some illness, or perhaps… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity.… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won.… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter… — John Maxwell Hamilton Copy Share Image
The financial history of the last century shows a steady increase in the amount of public indebtedness. Nobody believes that the states… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
I love to try to understand first principles and be guided by that. But then, enrich them, because they won't last forever,… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
I am not saying people should not be free to join whichever reason they choose but should we be forced to live… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Remember that life's length is not measured by its hours and days, but by that which we have done therein. A useless… — Walter Breuning Copy Share Image
He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to… — Michael Arad Copy Share Image
As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be… — Gil Gerard Copy Share Image
Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
During the 19th century, Iranians lost vast territories in disastrous wars, and corrupt monarchs sold everything of value in the country to… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Sandra Day O'Connor - once she said that there are - there were no public schools in America until the 18th century,… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland… — Joe Posnanski Copy Share Image
Those who take to guns could do so due to deprivation, suppression, or historical legacy. The Afghans have lived through violence for… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology. — Stanley Smith Stevens Copy Share Image
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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