One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.… — Morris West Copy Share Image
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Black children, white children, Latino children. America is becoming more diverse, it's becoming more tolerant as a consequence there's more interactions between… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The great American denial riff is that you can do whatever you like and you always triumph at the end. The world… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Young persons, because of their immaturity, may not fully comprehend the consequences of their actions and should therefore benefit from less severe… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
In the US, we consider our foreign policy as something rooted in the protection of American ideals of democracy and human development.… — Ed McBain Copy Share Image
Because I am a deep believer in the civil society, I think we should be prepared to pay the consequences of breaking… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Scientists themselves readily admit that they do not fully understand the consequences of our many-faceted assault upon the interwoven fabric of atmosphere,… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
Then he read the words of the scroll slowly, first in Japanese and then carefully translated into English: 'There is really nothing… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Having serious consequences to your decision-making process is something you have to be very comfortable with. It's something you learn and you… — Jeremy Hansen Copy Share Image
The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information. I attribute it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You have to do what's best for you and what's going to make you happy at the end of the day, because… — LeBron James Copy Share Image
All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
My mother's influence to take on new challenges and do what I though was right even though sometimes the consequences politically speaking… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
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The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Part of the popularity with Louis Farrakhan has less to do with the content of his message and more to do with… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the shared nature of the sacrifices, and the… — Pete Hegseth Copy Share Image
I'm very pleased we got that nuclear agreement. It puts a lid on the nuclear weapons program. We have to enforce it,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I went to an all-girls Catholic school. And all the nuns just breathed down our necks "abstinence." And that's not the right… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The real difference of interests, lay not between large and small, but between the Northern and Southern states. The institution of slavery… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Some favorite expressions of small children: "It's not my fault...They made me do it...I forgot." Some favorite expressions of adults: "It's not… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I thought it was a stroke of genius that Hans Selye used the word stress, because it's true that if you don't… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
Too many people - some of them judges - seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences for what… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
