We must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect war may have on them. To assess these things in… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
It seemed to me singularly ill-contrived for the British government to be going to war with Hitler when Hitler might have been… — Maurice Cowling Copy Share Image
At some point, people may decide that the U.S. stock market has fallen enough. After all, the U.S. economy seems to be… — David Wessel Copy Share Image
In this science the illustrations and examples are not confined in their effect merely to the practice they afford in the analytical… — Dionysius Lardner Copy Share Image
To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
I do think that an understanding of contemporary work in the cognitive sciences has a profound effect on how one views the… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I call it "the big picture effect." Getting to see earth as a small planet and to see it in that perspective,… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
You know how they do that effect in movies, where they make it look like you have a twin, but it's really… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
When a young writer deliberately tries to create an effect, the result is often a little self-conscious and overdone. But why is… — Lucy Calkins Copy Share Image
When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting,… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
Countless people have attempted to define the absolute power of the world of nature. Some praise it as god, some call it… — Koichi Tohei Copy Share Image
The peril of this century is spiritual apathy. As the body requires sunlight, good food, proper exercise and rest, so the spirit… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
If everybody did just one thing. Just one thing. Not even a great thing. Not a world-changing thing, just one blessing, just… — Don Altman Copy Share Image
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The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part… — Maurice Hayes Copy Share Image
I am not a climatologist, but I don't think any of the other witnesses are either. I do work in the related… — William Happer Copy Share Image
If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
At that point, I thought probably special effects, something like that, and indeed, the early days when I was working with my… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
What I'm talking about is both political and then also extra-political. Because what Donald Trump is doing is not simply to be… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical… — William S. Burroughs 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
As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers… — Robert Fulton Copy Share Image
This kind of totalization of security consciousness [after tragedy of 9/11] has the effect within classrooms (and beyond) of constraining the imagination… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We may not usually think that we have an effect on the lives of others, but we would be amazed at how… — John Harricharan Copy Share Image
'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth'… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects"… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
And people talk about the stimulus package and the jobs that it was supposed to create, it certainly didn't have the intended… — Kristi Noem Copy Share Image
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
There were some ages in Western history that have occasionally been called Dark. They were dark, it is said, because in them… — Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk Copy Share Image
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