That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W.… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation… — Peter Calthorpe Copy Share Image
I think that the FIDE leaders have to reconsider the current drawing rules - their advantages aren't very clear, but their shortcomings… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
I used to do Korean classical music and started training to join an idol group after someone set me up an interview… — Kim Him-chan Copy Share Image
Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The current fast food that we have is inexpensive when you buy it, but the long-term costs of eating it and the… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
I don't think that Mitt Romney can legitimately say that he learned anything about how to create jobs in the LBO (leveraged… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
All too often the worst thing that can happen to the young is to depoliticize them. When that happens, not only are… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The current health care takeover proposals feature a crucial payoff to Big Labor - a golden exemption from any tax on union… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
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