A disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Be a giver. Share whatsoever you can. And remember, I am not making any distinction between. small things and great things. If… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We shall use the terms morality, behavior, conduct, or constructive action in the same broad way. It may sound strange to speak… — William Patten Copy Share Image
North Carolina is home to some of the largest financial institutions in the country, and a vibrant network of community banks. We're… — Kay Hagan Copy Share Image
The inimitable writer Maxine Hong Kingston published a book in 2002 with the title To Be the Poet. However, in contrast to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I never make a distinction between doing a film in Hollywood or doing a film independently. It's just the story. It's always… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
There is a crucial distinction to be made between innovation and originality. The second, unlike the first, can never break with what… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The class distinctions simply result from the different degrees of success with which men have availed themselves of the chances which were… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical.… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamicsthat present… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things,… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
To diminish the suffering of pain, we need to make a crucial distinction between the pain of pain, and the pain we… — Howard Cutler Copy Share Image
We must make a clear distinction between the nature of Chairman Mao's mistakes and the crimes of Lin Biao and the Gang… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's.… — Florence King Copy Share Image
In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I think the single most important political distinction today is actually between open-minded versus closed-minded, and that's why I think this crosses… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Along the way, let's never forget that once we were children and that we were all playing together without distinction of skin… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
I am an innovator. This is a term of distinction, a term of honor, rather than something to hide or apologize for.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image