As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the pendulum… — Richard Rorty 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
Concerning the common currency: today, the euro is not worth it for Poland. The reason why we survived the financial and economic… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy,… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
Matt Damon is a great actor, and he's from Boston, so we've got a few things in common. I've seen him throw… — Tom Brady Copy Share Image
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I was reading books filled with people different from me, all French, all foreigners. There was a… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
To prevent government from becoming corrupt and tyrannous, its organization and methods should be as simple as possible, its functions be restricted… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Scorecards are common in the political process, but they are inappropriate in the judicial process. The most important tools in the judicial… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
For is it not the common experience of all of us - you and I - that we do no incorporate the… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
I carried on buying paintings, works of art, and Yves Saint Laurent, if I may say so, had a right of inspection.… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the… — John August Copy Share Image
The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“More intriguingly, in poll after poll, when Americans are asked what public institutions they most respect, three bodies are always at the… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form. — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
“Let me take once again a rough parable. Suppose I advertised in the papers that I had a place for any one… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity… — George Dana Boardman Pepper Copy Share Image
My view is there will be problems and bad people as long as the earth exists, and since we're moving into a… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18... — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We're living in a time when pretty much anything can happen in the music world. There are a lot of musical languages… — Jennifer Higdon Copy Share Image
My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity. — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
The happiness of society depends so much on preventing party spirit from infecting the common intercourse of life, that nothing should be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Here's the problem with Common Core. The Department of Education, like every federal agency, will never be satisfied. They will not stop… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
