A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The days of television as we knew it growing up are over. You have a bigger, wider world audience on the Internet,… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
An inventor's endeavor is essentially lifesaving. Whether he harnesses forces, improves devices, or provides new comforts and conveniences, he is adding to… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The Carmen Electra cards give me another way to connect with my fans while providing them the ability to enjoy the convenience… — Carmen Electra Copy Share Image
“For those of us who quietly seek the white light in the midnight hours, emotions turn out to be a noisy magnetic… — Randy Taguchi Copy Share Image
Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security,… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
The ancients were destitute of many of the conveniences of life which have been invented or improved by the progress of industry;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
What is left of the poor? Try to buy a fresh f**king vegetable in West Baltimore. It is a not completely inconceivable… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Being forcefully rattled out of our consumer mentality - our addiction to comfort and convenience can create an opportunity for us [people]… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
Freedom cannot always continue in comfort and convenience, cannot be assured without sacrifice, without truth and decency, without willingness to work, without… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding.These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found.… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“A lengthy and painful discussion followed. It lasted through tea and dinner. It was revealed to Lady Beatrice that, though she had… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
Talking about freedom, about ethical issues, about responsibilities as well as convenience, is asking people to think about things they might prefer… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
The essence nature of the Brahmin is an urge to know the truth...the true Brahmin pursues truth at all costs and will… — Robert S. de Ropp Copy Share Image
We do children an enormous disservice when we assume that they cannot appreciate anything beyond drive through fare and nutritionally marginal, kid-targeted… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think maybe what happened was the convenience of technology overshadowed the experience of holding an album in your hands, and sitting… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Without natural resources life itself is impossible. From birth to death, natural resources, transformed for human use, feed, clothe, shelter, and transport… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
I followed the woman from the convenience store, to a driveway she pulled into. And I hung around several hours, till it… — Tommy Lynn Sells Copy Share Image
One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the… — Rose George Copy Share Image
I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every purchasing decision involves a trade-off between what I call fidelity and convenience. Fidelity is the total experience of something - how… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
In the long run magazines can't be a convenience play - the Web has stolen that. So magazines have to be high… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious than gangsters. The latter are content to take your money, whereas the former, besides… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
We engineered activity out of our lives in the name of convenience. We created foods that put fried, fatty, sweet, and salty… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the convenience stores… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
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