I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
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Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The Indian government has managed to turn the concept of nonviolence on its head. Nonviolent resistance and nonviolent governance. Unlike, say, China… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The most noticeable weakness of Congressmen is their timidity. They fear the use to be made of their "record." They are afraid… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
In stories, everything has to have clear consequences and everything has to focus to the end. Everything at the end will give… — Jaco Van Dormael Copy Share Image
I have lived under the threat of death for a year now. And because of that, I have made choices. Listen to… — Walter White Copy Share Image
Another real danger to young men is thoughtlessness and lack of consideration. Lack of thought is one simple reason why thousands of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
Principles always have natural consequences attached to them. There are positive consequences when we live in harmony with the principles. There are… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
People look at my competitive spirit, and they automatically attach it to the thing that's most similar, most easily recognizable, which is… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
When I'm in the process of making a movie I'm not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Unlike any other player on the board, the press has no oversight, no mandate, few penalties, and even fewer consequences. Because there… — Matt Sanchez Copy Share Image
What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences… — Mark Blaug Copy Share Image
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The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
In order to develop the willpower it takes to sacrifice, you must first realize that spending all your time and energy pursuing… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Resistance is a result of our mind being attached to having things a certain way rather than the way they actually are.… — Lee L Jampolsky Copy Share Image
[Companies] are not going to be leaving, go to another country, make the product, sell it into the United States, and all… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
We are compelled to work more hours per day, receive less pay per hour, pay more for what we buy, and recieve… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous… — Luke Ford Copy Share Image
The initial 18th-, 19th-century intention was to give the less-educated lower classes a way to move up into this new, rising middle… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
For most of us even the imagined threat of criticism functions to control our behavior. We are haunted to some degree by… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
The erosion of agency has consequences for our politics. As a result of all this, the fundamental ethical challenge of the anthropocene… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that [the norm's] general observance can be anticipated to have for the… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
For me, there were a few things in the Spider-Man comics that I thought were really interesting. There's this story about Peter's… — Marc Webb Copy Share Image
In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old]… — John Reader Copy Share Image
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I do not care what you do, and that is hard for you to hear. Yet do you care what your children… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because … I've done this. I've… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Capitalism is in crisis both morally, due to widening disparities of income and wealth and disclosures of abusive practices, and ecologically, due… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image