Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel… — Frank Laubach Copy Share Image
A friend of mine is trying to do a documentary where he brings Jewish and Arab comedians to occupied territories in Israel.… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
There are some who maintain that trade will regulate itself, and it is not to be benefited by the encouragements or restraints… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I don't want people to think about one common thing. Coda is non-discursive, just like choreography for the stage. So each audience… — Martine Epoque Copy Share Image
In Russia, we are ready to listen to our partners, ready to listen to appraisals and assessments when it is done in… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
[Kellyanne] Conway had just explained how they won the presidency. They flipped over 200 counties, and she explained, "Did you ever think,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Religion can be a good thing, but basically the way I look at it is that it provides a moral code, common… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
The ecological crisis shows the urgency of a solidarity which embraces time and space... A greater sense of intergenerational solidarity is urgently… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It's great having Bruce Springsteen on my show. We have so much in common! We're both from New Jersey, just from different… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The very common error of young or unconfident cooks is to keep putting more of their own personal ideology into a plate… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
Recently in Washington, unfortunately, we have seen examples of the wrong kind of leadership -- when politicians choose scorched earth over common… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It is fashionable to scoff at Americans, but they routinely produce most of the important and ground-breaking entertainment in the world. 'Popular… — Ian O'Doherty Copy Share Image
See yourself as you really are. Listen to what none of your leaders and representatives dares tell you: You are a "little,… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
In The Tricky Art of Co-Existing, Sandi Toksvig navigates life's little dilemmas with wit and not-so-common sense. You'll learn the strange history… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys,… — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
Polygamy was not a problem in the '80s. I do not remember one single woman in Baghdad who was the second or… — Yanar Mohammed Copy Share Image
I get very selfish at times. I write about things that are interesting to me. Which are often very different. All of… — Wright Thompson Copy Share Image
I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just… — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself;… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs -… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
The white worker who has been displaced at General Motors has more in common with the displaced black worker than those larger… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Trying to get a common set of trading rules right down to very simple things like paperless customs arrangements and telecommunications services… — Andrew Robb Copy Share Image
I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image