Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I'm against cronyism, and I had to learn that early on. Like, I don't have an entourage, because I saw the negative… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We have to wage peace. That's the law of the spirit is the waging of peace, because if we simply seek to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I see no reason to believe that the Vietnamese Communist Party will lose control over the reins of power in Vietnam. There… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Personal power is something that is not visible. We can see its effects, but we cannot see power itself. In the same… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Lucretius was passionate, and much more in need of exhortations to prudence than Epicurus was. He committed suicide, and appears to have… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you'll have a decision to make when… — Angus T. Jones Copy Share Image
As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Evidently one cannot look for long at the Last Supper without ceasing to study it as a composition, and beginning to speak… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that [the norm's] general observance can be anticipated to have for the… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Pain is inevitable. It is actually a great opportunity for growth, but when we blame or fail to take responsibility for our… — Romany Malco Copy Share Image
Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
True power is invisible and impeccable, like good taste. It is never clumsy or artless. Powerful people whisper, suggest, seduce, in order… — Lynda Obst Copy Share Image
War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I moved out to Los Angeles with the idea of becoming a director, which thousands, if not tens and hundreds of thousands,… — Robert Stromberg Copy Share Image
Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects... — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Now consciousness, what is consciousness? Consciousness is being aware of one's surroundings, recognizing the existence, truth or fact of something; being aware… — James Small Copy Share Image
The consideration of man's body has not changed to meet the new conditions of this artificial environment that has replaced his natural… — Hilton Hotema Copy Share Image
Education is something that should not be organized on a for-profit basis, because in that case its purpose is not really to… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
