Genius: 1. to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true for you is ultimately true. 2. a sledgehammer. 3.… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
One of the hardest things in politics is to convince people to do things now that will have a good effect 20… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's been written about as "the overview effect." All I can give you is my perspective, but most all of the people… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
All illegal narcotics are medicinal. Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it, with little or no side effects if… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
I guess in general, because it's such a popular trend in mainstream American pop, that there's been some kind of negative reaction… — Chris Baio Copy Share Image
... I would urge a young player to listen to Charlie Christians' sense of time ... I'll never forget listening to my… — John Pizzarelli Copy Share Image
It dawned on me at some point that our music makes certain people happy - I never thought we'd have that effect… — David Macklovitch Copy Share Image
If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky.… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Nuclear industry proponents often assert that low doses of radiation (eg below 100mSV) produce no ill effects and are therefore safe. But… — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image
In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the… — Robert Lawlor Copy Share Image
I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Pretty much every issue that we've put out, there have been at least one or two things that really surprised me. It… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
NASA's Aqua satellite is showing that water vapor, the dominant greenhouse gas, works to offset the effect of carbon dioxide - CO2.… — Walter Cunningham Copy Share Image
General Systems Theory, a related modern concept [to holism], says that each variable in any system interacts with the other variables so… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
The activities and effects of the Fire and Air elements in the astral sphere call forth the astral-electric fluid, and the activities… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions,… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Sometimes, after I'd gone at the coke like one of those snow plows moving up First Avenue, I'd think my heart was… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Words and ideas can change or influence the mind just like music can - yes, like a spell. Regarding the effect of… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
Presumably, as a Martial artist, I do not fight for gain or loss, am not concerned with strength or weakness, and neither… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Just as an informal, nonscientific observation, most people's personalities don't seem to change very much during their lives. There are exceptions in… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than… — William James Copy Share Image
A film in which the speech and sound effects are perfectly synchronized and coincide with their visual image on the screen is… — Paul Rotha Copy Share Image
Republicans favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, but these had no stimulative effect during the George W. Bush administration, and… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
If the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set. The monarchy is mildly interesting and… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
If you're willing to travel, or just super-desperate, the best place in the world to meet unattached men is on the Alaska… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
There are things in our lives that take up an enormous importance and that become very dominant effects in our biography. And… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
An animatic is a process where every voice and every sound effect is added to rough animated drawings and it lasts exactly… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
When you are but slightly involved in the world, the effect the world has on you is also slight. When you are… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
You also want to look at how the tax system encourages and rewards pension saving. I have set as an ambition reversing… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound. It's not trying to replace a band,… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
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