A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle...… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Money is like any other language through which people communicate. People who speak the same language tend to find each other. If… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
There is no mystery in a looking glass until someone looks into it. Then, though it remains the same glass, it presents… — Harold Clarke Goddard Copy Share Image
I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line…… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
A true community consists of individuals - not mere species members, not couples - respecting each others individuality and privacy while at… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
I saw a man walk into my camera viewfinder from the left. He took a pistol out of his holster and raised… — Eddie Adams Copy Share Image
What we have to ask is this: what can we morally expect of and allow to people whom we deploy to fulfill… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
The language of the culture also reflects the stories of the culture. One word or simple phrasal labels often describe the story… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
People say 'I love Artists', but what they really know about Artists? They've ever thought about sharing the real madness with us?… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru?… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
Although the history of dispossession and exile for Jews is very different from the history of dispossession and exile for Palestinians, they… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We need to deal with three things that are important: first, we need a very deep reconsideration of how we are dealing… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“We all want to be normal. Life, even normal life, is arduous, demanding, and ultimately threatening. We all have to deal with… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mr. Blatchford says that there was not a Fall but a gradual rise. But the very word "rise" implies that you know… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If, when we compare two versions of a story, the second known to be a retelling of the first, and find that… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
This is why the terrorists hate us. And it's not the glitter and it's not the pomp and circumstance. We've got black… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
As an architect it is very important that you distinguish between different realities. There's the reality of the drawing and the reality… — Raimund Abraham Copy Share Image
Now that the most interesting matter of identity is not what place someone was born in, but what point in time they… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in numerous small details of habits, tastes and dispositions between two or more domestic races,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
At the southern tip of the continent, a rich reward is in the making, an invaluable gift is in the preparation, for… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Peace is our goal, but peace from strength, an enduring peace that will bring regional cooperation. What we have emphasized and agreed… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right,… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
I know from experience that to one who thinks much and feels deeply, it often seems that he has only to put… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics,… — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
