If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely… — Desmond Bagley Copy Share Image
What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change. — David Miliband Copy Share Image
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“haven’t the slightest interest in being happy. I prefer to live life passionately, which is dangerous because you never know what might… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I know that a world in which countries are stockpiling nuclear weapons and using them in the ways that India and Pakistan… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off people's lives in… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
You look at Libya, and you go, "Jesus, why the hell did we do that?" That's beyond stupid. That's so irresponsible and… — Michael T. Flynn Copy Share Image
The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Conscience is the most dangerous thing you possess. If you wake it up, it may destroy you. To live a life of… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we, with our… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Writers transform: they throw a hand grenade into the notion of reality that people carry around in their heads. That's very dangerous,… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
There are people who believe that there should be a standard psychiatric examination for every presidential candidate and for every president. But… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
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Is this so-called [Republican Party] hate wing that is so angry at all the things that have - all the changes that… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
We are literally in the heart of Jesus," he said. "I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally… — John Green Copy Share Image
We no longer have the public spheres available to be able to contest that violence. We don't see it in the mainstream… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act is certainly a concern; all of those things are dangerous. I think more important than me preaching is that… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Beauty is a dangerous word. Beauty becomes slightly indulgent for me. It's a snatched kind of moment for me because I'm entitled… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A lot of that I base on, "Is it still going to sound interesting and fresh to me in five years, am… — Mark Linkous Copy Share Image
In school they told me I was a Jew, "a filthy Jew." At first I asked myself what exactly that was. But… — Anita Lasker-Wallfisch Copy Share Image
Make philosophy thy journey, theology thy journey's end: philosophy is a pleasant way, but dangerous to him that either tires or retires;… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
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Being an American journalist can put people on the defensive. In countries where people assume the press is partisan, like in Lebanon,… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
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Trump hasn't really done anything yet to abuse his powers. I don't even know if he knows what all his powers are… — John Dean Copy Share Image
As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic Church has adopted for fifteen hundred… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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Al-Hallaj has a special destiny. He came at a time when worldliness, the luxury, were inundating the Islamic world. His function was… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
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I think we're creating a situation that's incredibly dangerous. There's a lot of chat at the moment about the war on terror… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I think this is the way love feels to people like you and me. Threatening and dangerous. We have to be in… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
However dangerous might be the shock of a comet, it might be so slight, that it would only do damage at the… — Pierre Louis Maupertuis Copy Share Image
I present the thing we're going to do as a simple starting point. They all know it's an art piece and that… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image