This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
When I was going through those very fast changes, I think it was terribly important to me that I was seen to… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced.… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
One characteristic that I have observed about the timing of all good traders is that they never try to squeeze out the… — Venita VanCaspel Copy Share Image
For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the… — Richard DeVos Copy Share Image
The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
In more simple words, we might say everything in the universe is trying to become every other thing; and every condition of… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
... Wild Bill had his faults, grievous ones, perhaps ... He would get drunk, gamble, and indulge in the general licentiousness characteristic… — Jack Crawford Copy Share Image
The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
If I had to name the single characteristic shared by all truly successful individuals, I’d say it’s the ability to create and… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire… — Bonnie Wright Copy Share Image
It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
As a centre-back, my characteristics are more about aggression. I go looking for the ball, refuse to give it up as lost,… — Nicolas Otamendi Copy Share Image
Balance is the natural state of life, because the basic characteristic of the fundamental element of life, pure consciousness, is complete balance. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
A few atoms added here, subtracted there, is all it takes to make the difference between male and female sex characteristics, between… — Roald Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The subjective element in geological studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists. One considering geology as a… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my… — Calista Flockhart Copy Share Image
By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Our courts provide a neutral forum for the adjudication of disputes under the law, not based on economic or political power, on… — Jon Kyl Copy Share Image
You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
There are some nights when everything goes your way and some when it doesn't, and this wasn't our game. I was most… — Fabio Capello Copy Share Image
Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
The Marine Corps went from 15,000, which its strength was when I was Commandant, to approximately 400,000 when I retired, and more… — Thomas Holcomb Copy Share Image
Hearing is the motion of molecules; sound is a wave in the atmosphere; solidity is the characteristic of spatial juxtaposition of atoms;… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The best advice I can give to new parents is to realize immediately that your children will be unique individuals. Give them… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible.… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
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