A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The state which is regarded as the instrument for universalizing a certain religion must perforce be an ever expanding state. The Islamic… — Majid Khadduri Copy Share Image
The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
The Commonwealth of Learning is not at this time without Master-Builders, whose mighty Designs, in advancing the Sciences, will leave lasting Monuments… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Meritocracy has nothing to do with who gets in. It's more who you are and where you come from and where you… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since… — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
In the Bible, shalom means universal flourishing, wholeness, and delight--a rich state of affairs in which natural needs are satisfied and natural… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently... And even if you did nothing during… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I'll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I'm just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Throughout all ranks of society, from the successful merchant, which is the highest, to the domestic serving man, which is the lowest,… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
The psychological peer pressure that the left has employed - and deployed, actually - on young people has been overwhelmingly successful. It… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and… — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed.… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image