In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual…Physically and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
To take the place of emigration, and with the prior approval of the Führer, the evacuation of the Jews to the East… — Reinhard Heydrich Copy Share Image
When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
History is not just about dates and quotations. And it's not just about politics, the military and social issues, though much of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Kitty Kelley's method, already perfected in her unauthorised and unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is to write bestsellers that… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
I think a trillion dollars of student loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what happens to a society that actively… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
Everything comes from one thing, everything comes from the Spirit. Jazz would not exist had it not been for gospel music, the… — Ramsey Lewis Copy Share Image
Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
MacGyver of course, that's probably my favorite show of all time, because it was a guy who was so, so smart and… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
The more evolutionary theory gets called an atheistic theory, the greater the risk that it will lose its place in public school… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
“Of course, in Los Angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, most people don't have cars, so… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
… what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women. When people say, 'Oh, she plays like… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I know some African-Americans, they happen to be conservative, they're successful. They, of course, have raised their kids, and kids can't escape… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and… — Alexandra Sokoloff Copy Share Image
Harvey was not content merely to gather knowledge; he digested and arranged it under the guidance of the faculties which compare and… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
Part of my platform is, of course, the guilty must be punished and that we no longer let our children see their… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
My desire is to strive toward perfection; to be as much in harmony with God's will as possible; to live up to… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I'm a great supporter of transcendental meditation. I've been using it for almost 40 years now - and I think it's a… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Baptism is a sign to God, to angels, and to heaven that we do the will of God, and there is no… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
One thing I've experienced and I feel really grateful for now that I'm on my way out is that I felt that… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
I have spent the last 30 years forming the religious right. I write a letter every week and send a newspaper every… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a… — Francis Maitland Balfour Copy Share Image
Nobody has seen the trekking birds take their way towards such warmer spheres as do not exist, or rivers break their course… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The true democracy, living and growing and inspiring, puts its faith in the people - faith that the people will not simply… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
