One of my favorite sketches, and a popular comedy formula, is to put someone with a mental handicap in some kind of… — Bonnie McFarlane Copy Share Image
Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The animal liberation movement is saying that where animals and humans have similar interests - we might take the interest in avoiding… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
John Calvin's theology emphasizes the sanctity of conscience, the sanctity of companionate marriage, and the obligation of those in power to attend… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Authority can mean different things to different people. For example, some document or other may be authoritative for particular group even though… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Feelings aren't good or bad. They're just weak or strong. Love, for example, is weak: someone loves you, you love them back,… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
I dont want to sound gloomy, but, at some point of your lives, every one of you will notice that you have… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you… — Bono Copy Share Image
I have seen a lot of men, for example, who will make a will and include their daughters whether they are married… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Koizumi was not rooted in Japan's rightwing nationalist tradition: he was a pragmatist and a populist. Abe, in contrast, is a rightwing… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem… — Mark Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
An example I love: Diwata auditioned for the school play by doing a big number from Once Upon A Mattress. I went… — Sarah Steele Copy Share Image
As a president, you've got to show some example. I am disturbed for instance when I read that a candidate said, 'I… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Their example testifies that Baptism commits Christians to participating courageously in the spreading of the Kingdom of God, if need be cooperating… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Many Europeans, while admiring the strength and power of the American economy, undoubtedly feel that the system of social values which prevails… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
Perhaps the worst example of Smithsonian contempt for Jesus Christ is seen in its 1994 publication of a coffee-table book entitled Smithsonian… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
Molecular genetics can show off some surprising relationships like, for example, the close relationship of whales to hippopotamuses, which I think nobody… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
We can reorient science - for example, a kind of medicine much more directed toward the enormous number of women's health problems… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
User experience is really the whole totality. Opening the package good example. It's the total experience that matters. And that starts from… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand. For example,… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying… — Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Copy Share Image
As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Some decisions are obviously much more inconsequential than others. For example, let's say you choose the blue shirt over the red one;… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
The true danger is the expansion of empire and the huge diversion of public budgets overseas at the neglect of domestic necessities,… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
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Trying to stop suiciders -- which we're doing a pretty good job of on occasion -- is difficult to do. And what… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The visual can seduce you, leading to false deductions, and ultimately, even the finest ideas can be reduced. Take for example, sexuality.… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
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