Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
America is a very fundamentalist society. It's like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don't need to… — Susan Wojcicki Copy Share Image
And perfect happiness? Man, that's a... the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm. — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the… — James Prescott Joule Copy Share Image
We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself. And since… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
What is God-given is called nature; to follow nature is called Tao (the Way); to cultivate the way is called culture. Before… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Luckily I had just finished a Marvel film so I was already in a training mentality and then this movie happened and… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
In the end, the most important thing is to be true to yourself and those you love and work hard. I mean,… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and rich in… — Hermann Kolbe Copy Share Image
Symons remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification,… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
No one is an overachiever. How can you rise above your level of competency? Everyone is an underachiever to different degrees. The… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
I turned my air conditioner the other way around and it got cold out. The weatherman said 'I don't understand it. It… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Nobody would have ever guessed-I wouldn't have guessed-the extraordinary degree to which you can reduce social violence through meditation. — John Hagelin Copy Share Image
I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to… — Daniel J. Evans Copy Share Image
One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling… — Dale Archer Copy Share Image
A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third,… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was… — George Jung Copy Share Image
If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image