All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable)… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhancethe true dignity of a prosperous American, do but… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I accept that it was a mistake to allow distinctions to be blurred between my professional responsibilities and my personal loyalties to… — Liam Fox Copy Share Image
If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The people are maybe still as aware of the differences but they are more accepting of it that what we saw in… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Part of the true luxury of "earned laziness" are the braggin rights that come along with being purposefully and publicly lazy. It… — Al Gini Copy Share Image
To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think people like me are in a relatively privileged position because we have to some extent chosen to live in foreign… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
It's very interesting to think about the distinction with mind, which I just made in very general terms, but it can be… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Work and play can be the same. When you are following your energy and doing what you want to do all the… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women.… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by… — Stanley Morison Copy Share Image
The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form.… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The arrival of television established a mass-media order that dominated the last 50 years. This is a personal media revolution. The distinction… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The leading distinction in magnets is the sex, male and female, and the next great difference in them is the colour. Those… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Now I wonder what our knowledge has in common with God's knowledge according to those who treat God's knowledge... Is there anything… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
It is in vain that we search for an essential difference between good and evil, for their constituents are the same. The… — Charles Hampden-Turner Copy Share Image
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
I mean ... to let you know how deeply I am impressed with a sense of the importance of Amendments; that the… — Samuel Copy Share Image
In rehearsals I get so completely wrapped up with the reality that's occurring on stage that by the time the play has… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which… — Kenneth Kaunda Copy Share Image
But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The society of Christendom and especially of Western Christendom up to the explosion, which we call the Reformation, had been a society… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
There are some despotic governments so filled with a feeling of insecurity that they regard the free life of culture as a… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Because you are obsessed with the idea of past, present, and future, you are forced to think of reincarnations as strung out… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
