There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example.… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
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I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Even dramatically how you position some person, the depth, the existence [in 3D] is different than a flat image even though by… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
The ways sexuality plays out in political economies is central. And Cambodia's political economy is organized around this notion of family. So… — Anne Elizabeth Moore Copy Share Image
I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
You essentially have a human-relations database on millions of Americans. The administration said, "Well we're not listening to calls, we don't collect… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered… — Brian May Copy Share Image
Examples of exaggeration can be found in almost any advertising medium. The use of the superlative is altogether too prevalent. 'The finest,'… — Daniel Starch Copy Share Image
When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently,… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children certainly not by threat, guilt, or… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
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Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
I know people who support Hamas, but they never got involved in terrorist attacks, for example... they follow Hamas because they love… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
Spinoza , for example, thought that insight into the essence of reality, into the harmonious structure of the eternal universe, necessarily awakens… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
I believe in positive despotism. That means an exchange between people. I'm thinking about the fact that someone serves me breakfast in… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
The command is to love him, not just to think about him, or do things for him. We are not to stop… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
What many people don't see is that there are abundant examples of phenomenal opacity: It is one of the most interesting features… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
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Over time it just got more and more intense as far as the trust factor. For example, when we started editing the… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Israel's democracy is the bedrock on which our relationship stands. It's a shining example for people around the world who are on… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
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