It's a common perception that science and religion are mutually exclusive. But there are many scientists who would consider themselves to be… — Katharine Hayhoe Copy Share Image
We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes,… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Look... to go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
That was a pretty fine Army that we had in 1965. By 1973, it was in tatters. It was a disgrace to… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
When somebody says something I don't agree with, I say I'd rather not. It comes to the point where that is the… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money. — Anne Northup Copy Share Image
ISIS is a terrorist entity whose barbarities have been condemned by all those who value our common humanity. In the current political… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
As recently as the '70s, people were forced to see information that they didn't agree with in newspapers and the like. Now… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
