Another very common use, in all cultures, of psychoactive substances is to give people transcendent experiences. To allow them to transcend their… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
I still try to keep my eyes open. I'm always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man.… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Our culture is like a garment that does not fit us, or in any case no longer fits us. This culture is… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I actually don't have any fear of people reading Wild and going out unprepared. Because one of the best things that ever… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
I tend to gravitate toward the "act two," or "act three," or "act four" stories - either things that are underreported, where… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
God hath given to mankind a common library, His creatures; to every man a proper book, himself being an abridgment of all… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
All of the members of my new team have displayed in their work a strong sense of pragmatism that I promote... The… — Donald Tsang Copy Share Image
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon - if I can. I seek… — Dean Alfange Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
The pressures for human cloning are powerful; but, although it seems likely that somebody, at some time, will attempt it, we need… — Ian Wilmut Copy Share Image
Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
NATO is based on shared values. Democracy, individual civil liberties and the rule of law. In public and also in meetings with… — Jens Stoltenberg Copy Share Image
Governments must not run only for elections. The government should be a bona fide attempt of meeting the demands and expectations of… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together,… — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
Dorian Yates and I have nothing in common, physically speaking. He's a Volkswagen; I'm a Porsche. — Shawn Ray Copy Share Image
I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
And I will add this point of merely personal experience of humanity: when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility,… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
The Left doesn't realize that unless you create a formative culture and a critical consciousness capable of changing the way people think… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The dominant feature of the later legislation has been this steady reduction of the status of the native, and, though the intention… — Paul Hasluck Copy Share Image
There is one way by which a strolling player may be ever secure of success; that is, in our theatrical way of… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I like to always remind my dancers about ways to avoid injury. One of the basic ways to avoid injury is to… — Laurieann Gibson Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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