Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man. — Robert Prechter Copy Share Image
By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The… — Marty Meehan Copy Share Image
Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There is a sense in the tree which feels your love and responds to it. It does not respond or show its… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to do it - not real change, not soul change, not the painful molecular change required to truly become who… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate — John Green Copy Share Image
Every time I meet an ambassador, I bring to the a table a list of NGOs I think are acting against Israel,… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Hitler will have no war (does not want war), but we will force it on him, not this year, but soon. — Emil Ludwig Copy Share Image
Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I should be the reigning champion. I punch a guy 300 times, he punches me a couple and they call him the… — Chael Sonnen Copy Share Image
Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. — Allan Armitage Copy Share Image
Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
A point of great importance would be first to know: what is the capacity of the earth? And what charge does it… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The "coalition against terrorism" means the United States. It does not wish anyone else to interfere with its strategy. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
