Wisdom is not developable, as if it's a matter of luck or personality or genetics. Well it's just not the case. Wisdom… — Alan Briskin Copy Share Image
I don't think you would have any trouble at all in deciding that you are thinking of some event and then visualizing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Although the decision to get a dog can seem light on the surface, it's actually a long-term commitment much like a human… — Elizabeth Holmes Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
With all that IMF money, the Thailand's and Mexico's are spared the consequences of their fiscal incompetence, and Wall Street's heavy hitters… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
For me, one of the most fertile consequences of the space program is the extent to which it stimulates people to innovate… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
