Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
When I was an impoverished graduate student, I would sometimes spend $20 or $30 on a T-shirt or accessory I didn't need… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The U.N. [the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention] has looked into this whole situation. They spent eighteen months in formal,… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Some patients are still having insomnia, but it's seems worse to them than actually it is. So, if they say they're sleep… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected… — Plato Copy Share Image
I personally feel that, for some people, their physique and looks work for them. And when you're deprived of both these aspects,… — Riteish Deshmukh Copy Share Image
Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Despite the numbness of the cold world, there will always be that one person who'll give you a warm hug... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who… — Sallust Copy Share Image
For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When I was exposed to the history and the cultural background of why women whose husbands die, why they have to become… — Deepa Mehta Copy Share Image
The Baltic republics have invented something totally new. Do you know what? They use the word 'non-citizens' for people who have been… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of… — Pope Innocent I Copy Share Image
...the souls of the dead [are] not deprived of their intellectual faculties but... they also are not lacking in feelings such as… — John Cassian Copy Share Image