Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
Uganda's Constitutional Court will decide whether the military court can proceed with this trial. A nation cannot claim to be operating under… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
[Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If someone claims to have free will, ask them, free from precisely what? — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
I was bright, and I could use that as a weapon: words can wound, whatever those sticks and stones sayings claim about… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility. — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Tragically, policymakers have thrown horrendous amounts of taxpayer money needed for other purposes at solving an unsubstantiated emergency. It is scandalous that… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
I can't claim to be disenchanted "with the current state of fiction" because I read so little of it. My reading is… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I'm afraid, as true as love is, it is tested by circumstance and sometimes you don't make the best choices. As much… — Joseph Dougherty Copy Share Image
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Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The image is made to order, tailored to us. An ideal, on the hand, has a claim on us. It does not… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
This [9/11 event] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. Note that there was no claim for these… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true. — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
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