“Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity.” Odrade explaining. “The young must be damped down. Never let them know how good they… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Buddhism is the most active one! The whole time, we're dealing with the mind and how to tame it, and how to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem,… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have… — Jo Grimond Copy Share Image
The first thing I can remember I ever wanted was to go to the United States. And for reasons that are as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't… — Seth Copy Share Image
Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers… — Neville Figgis Copy Share Image
A bully has no respect for a weakling and the way to stop a bully is not to be weak. The way… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do. — Bill Laswell Copy Share Image
Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
When everyone's focused on the conventional parts of war - doing infantry imbeds or chasing IEDs - you look at the thing… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ -… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports. — Steve House Copy Share Image
Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Of course, people say maybe there are some self-published books out there that shouldn't be out there. Well, it's the same with… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via… — Adi Da Copy Share Image
One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If every UFO report could be convincingly credited to some conventional astronomical or atmospheric phenomenon, there would be no UFO mystery. It… — Don Berliner Copy Share Image
