To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the… — Tori Spelling Copy Share Image
I'm all for education. Education ideally happens every moment of the day for people. Education is something that should never stop. The… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
It is organized as a fellowship of men, a system of morals, a philosophy taught by degrees through the use of symbol,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
A person is alive only to the degree that he or she is aware. To make the most of life we must… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is… — Diane de Poitiers Copy Share Image
[F]or as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
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If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image