The only way your powers can become great is by exerting them outside the circle of your own narrow, special, selfish interests.… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
After all, it is we who adapt to the machine. The machine does not adapt to us. — Friedrich Kittler Copy Share Image
I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow.… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival. — Mildred H. McAfee Copy Share Image
If you want a glory that does not vanish, then do not glory in a glory that vanishes — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy,… — Steve Keen Copy Share Image
If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker. — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it? — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The concept of congruence in Euclidean geometry is not exactly the same as that in non-Euclidean geometry. ..."Congruent" means in Euclidean geometry… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Please don’t think so lightly of liking someone. It’s terribly important. It is a kind of loving, you know, and one that… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to see the truth. Everybody wants to have the fantasy. When I look back at the books I was reading… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
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