If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
No. I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out our own actions. And our actions… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Telephone handsets are particularly in need of built-in security. We have almost every aspect of our personal and work lives reflected on… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
There is a gentle absurdity about Washington, D.C., and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget… — Linda Ellerbee Copy Share Image
Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true; Ever a prey to coincidence.… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. … We have… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
Fortunately, we know more about the problems that we have than in all preceding history. We know now the consequences of the… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
There’s a passage that I love in Romans 1. … [I]t talks about homosexuality and it says that they will receive in… — David Barton Copy Share Image
I'm all for file sharing. That's great - as long as people are prepared for the significant consequences. One is that music… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
Be cautious, understand the consequences of your decisions. You have to understand the consequences of every decision that you make. If you… — Neal Gabler Copy Share Image
We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
The more we are using clean energy, renewable energy sources, the less environmentally problematic facilities end up being a problem for everybody,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You'll see that excuses like "That's not easy" are of no value and that it pays to "push through it" at a… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I will stress once again that we do not know the source from which the UFOs or the alien beings come whether… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea… — John Gay Copy Share Image
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their… — Tipper Gore Copy Share Image
Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are… — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
GREED AND COMPETITION ARE NOT THE RESULT OF IMMUTABLE HUMAN TEMPERMENT…GREED AND FEAR OF SCARCITY ARE IN FACT BEING CREATED AND AMPLIFIED… — Bernard Lietaer Copy Share Image
We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Here and now was always where Tempus was, not off somewhere in the realm of Greater Good or Mortal Soul or Eternal… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To… — David Viscott Copy Share Image
Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
This remains a very important opportunity for the American people to have their day in court against big tobacco and its marketing… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
He could foretell whats'ever was By consequence to come to pass. As Death of Great Men, Alterations, Diseases, Battels, Inundations. All this… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
'Elections have consequences,' President Obama said, setting his new policy agenda just three days after taking office in 2009. Three elections later,… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image