The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his… — Frances Gray Patton Copy Share Image
For me, form is something I locate in the process of writing the poems. What I mean is, I start scribbling, and… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“I've come to believe errors, especially written errors, are often the only markers left by a solitary life: to sacrifice them is… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Oh the grave!--the grave!--It buries every error--covers every defect--extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort… — Todd Barry Copy Share Image
TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind… — Jon Postel Copy Share Image
“When we overlook the errors of people we like and favour. We are crippling the society, because others look up to them… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
England are very light up front. Eriksson's decision not to include Jermaine Defoe can be declared an error of judgment, regardless of… — Matt Dickinson Copy Share Image
To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the… — Trey Gowdy Copy Share Image
When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I wish there were two of me and 48-hour days so I could get everything done. But for me, I have to… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Finding that no religion was based upon facts, but that all of them were in opposition to facts, and could not therefore… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our error today is that we do not expect a converted man to be a transformed man, and as a result of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every coil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that,… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
There is a growing recognition that the death penalty simply can't work. It's a complex system that arbitrarily selects defendants for death… — Robert Cecil Martin Copy Share Image
Change the attitude toward errors. Think of an object's user as attempting to do a task, getting there by imperfect approximations. Don't… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
