The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
September 11 had such a strong visual component, the most visually documented event in human history. Nothing's ever been seen by as… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Since our awareness of others is considered our duty, the price we pay when things go wrong is guilt and self-hatred. And… — Nancy Chodorow Copy Share Image
It is unlikely that we will ever see a star being born. Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
You say, 'On the off chance that I had somewhat more, I ought to be exceptionally fulfilled.' You commit an error. On… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici is a dramatic, epic novel of an all-too-human woman whose strength and passion propelled her into… — Sandra Gulland Copy Share Image
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change… — George Boole Copy Share Image
The issues for journalism and journalists, we see obvious places where presentation is very different in a digital space from traditional print.… — Norman Pearlstine Copy Share Image
Until we stop ourselves or, more often, have been stopped, we hope to put certain of life's events "behind us" and get… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney's rally in Mansfield, Ohio, on Monday began the way every political event begins. 'Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance… — Ari Shapiro Copy Share Image
Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
What I’m trying to show is that the main event today is not seen by those of us that are living it…… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It [sin] cannot occur at any time nor in any form without his permission. While he does not actively originate it, he… — James Petigru Boyce Copy Share Image
I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition.… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
After the events of last week, I'm appalled at the standard Australia seems to be willing to accept in regards to its… — Clementine Ford Copy Share Image
Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback,… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
“Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Israel's creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering,… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A "name" no longer carries a film. People used to go to the cinema to see a "John Wayne film." And you… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that,… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Could it be that time is too narrow for all events? Could it happen that all the seats within time might have… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
I'm not really into clubbing, I like to go to parties after events, and those do end up at clubs or bars.… — Amanda Seyfried Copy Share Image
All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people,… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The Romneys have a horse competing in the Olympics. Ann Romney's horse failed to win a medal in the dressage event today,… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
A person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Engineering is not a science. Science studies particular events to find general laws. Engineering design makes use of the laws to solve… — Ove Arup Copy Share Image
[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
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