No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it… — Marilyn Strathern Copy Share Image
I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
In The Federalist, James Madison called the rage for equality 'a wicked project.' People differ and rewards differ-that's the essence of both… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Free healthcare and free and equal education and peace are about the only things I passionately believe in, and I think if… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to… — Princess Marie Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never… — Jeff Daniels Copy Share Image
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
Our economy today depends upon women in the labor force. One out of three workers is a woman. Today, there are almost… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Saying I want to pay women a fair wage is doing something and saying young black people deserve not to be called… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior. — Socrates Copy Share Image
It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. ...… — Ron Reagan Copy Share Image
It's called male bonding. You'll never get it. I believe women are as capable as men, deserve equal pay—and that one day,… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Do I start with the lyrics? No. Quite honestly, it's the opposite. I generally get the melody first - I kinda fiddle… — Iron & Wine Copy Share Image
Education and training for all children to be equal in opportunity in all schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions of training in… — Huey Long Copy Share Image
I didn't realize that I wasn't moving in a gender-equal world - I had a sense of it, but I didn't start… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
People's mouse clicks decide what businesses, services, and content succeed. Users have equal access to tiny businesses with viral ideas and blue-chip… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
When you have kids, there's no such thing as quality time. There's just time. There's no, 'Ooh, his graduation's better than going… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. — Amy Goodman Copy Share Image
I want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Crying to God for five minutes is equal to one hour of meditation. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
During her Oscar acceptance speech, Patricia Arquette called for equal pay for women. Then Oprah stood up and said, 'She's right, I… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I worked with the Nato Military Committee. The Head of the Luxembourg Armed Forces had equal standing with me, and I had… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
