Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Who will argue that 98.6 Farenheit is the right temperature for man? As for me, I decline to do it. It may… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality. The more democratic our societies… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.' — Alain Juppe Copy Share Image
A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The price decline is a result of having to pay debts. That drains income from the circular flow between production and consumption… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
The West has institutions that can punish the misconduct of individuals. What drove Rwanda and Africa into decline was the fact that… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
The NSF study projected a shortfall of 675,000 scientists and engineers without considering the future demand for such individuals in the marketplace.… — Howard Wolpe Copy Share Image
In other words, in the same way that mass incarceration surged because of a real thing, it's finally starting to ebb because… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political… — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline. — Talulah Riley Copy Share Image
The least-crowded channel for meeting high profile bloggers is in person. Email is the most difficult, the most crowded... I'm a top… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The success of Darwinism was accomplished by a decline in scientific integrity. — W. R. Thompson Copy Share Image
The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
