What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
With the commissioning of new schools undertaken by a local director of school standards, decisions will be fair and transparent, rooted in… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon.… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
Divine Providence has played a great part in our history. I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer,… — Cesar Aira Copy Share Image
The well-mannered man never puts out his hand in greeting until a lady extends hers. This is a test of good breeding… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
The Cheney team had, for example, technological supremacy over the National Security Council staff. That is to say, they could read their… — Lawrence Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
I've always liked the fact that anyone with a great idea, access to the Internet, and an unrelenting will can spark a… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that. If… — Riley Keough Copy Share Image
A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Divorce isn't like the Da Vinci Code of TV shows. I'm not saying only a secret society is going to understand… — Thomas Haden Church Copy Share Image
Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
“The great adventures of life, the surprise of strangers, of strangeness, of the electric and eclectic moments of happenstance, and also of… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I… — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
I know what it's like being with a major label. But I've always wanted to do things differently. And when I found… — Michael Angelo Batio Copy Share Image
I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The reason we've been growing at 1.8 percent for the last eight, ten years, which is way below the historical average, is… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
Of course, the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
That is the number-one threat we face in the world. And it becomes particularly threatening if terrorists ever get their hands on… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The Fat Girl Code of Conduct: 1. Any sexual activity is a secret. No public displays of affection. 2. Don’t discuss your… — Carolyn Mackler Copy Share Image
Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are three great international team sports in Australia: cricket, rugby (two codes), and Pom-bashing. But the greatest of these is the… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
To some people, bankers - code word for Jewish - and guess who Obama's assaulting? He's assaulting bankers. He's assaulting money people.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We have the same genetic code for all living creatures. We have a large number of genes that are manifestly the same,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But actually a code is a language for translating one thing into another. And mathematics is the language of science. My big… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on complexity; all Internet standards become festooned with complicating option sets that no one person can… — Dan Geer Copy Share Image
The shouting, the overrunning of the Capitol, the sneaking in of Tea Party participants into the basement of the Capitol, the name-calling,… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
Masculinity varies from time to time and place to place. But it doesn't exist just in the mind of a single guy:… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
To put it another way, I believe that purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do; and judge of them from what… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
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