People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs,… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still have a… — John Congleton Copy Share Image
Not only do I disbelieve in the need for compensation, but I believe that the seeking for rewards and punishments out of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I want to see my party achieve victory based on what we have to offer this country and our ability to offer… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
I’m aware of the- the fact that people elsewhere in the world think differently from us. I can sort of see us,… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist… — F. C. S. Schiller Copy Share Image
A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I discovered a long time ago that writing of the small things of the day, the trivial matters of the heart, the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
The remarks that [Steven] Lerner gave at Pace University: "'Unions are almost dead. We cannot survive doing what we do but the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“People should get their information from the source with facts before sharing it. Rumors can be lots of different opinions, based on… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the… — Nuala O'Faolain Copy Share Image
I believe we can have common sense gun safety measures consistent with the Second Amendment, and, in fact, what I have proposed… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Science fiction - and the correct shortcut is 'sf' - uses actual scientific facts or theories for the source ideas or framework… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Unfortunately many scientists see themselves too much as priests whose job it is to preach moralistic sermons to people. This is another… — Hans von Storch Copy Share Image
It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
Nearly all spiritual practices are based on attention. In fact, whenever you think you have lost the path, or whenever you feel… — Rick Fields Copy Share Image
I wonder what really goes on in the minds of Church leadership who know of the data concerning the Book of Abraham,… — Thomas Ferguson Copy Share Image
The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
If this is the degree of inflation planned for in advance, the real outcome is indeed likely to be such that most… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Customers are still setting the technology agenda. Not just you, our customers, but your customers as well. What more and more are… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Someone will always be prettier, someone will always be smarter, someone will always be younger, but they will never be you. Dont… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions… — Abe Burrows Copy Share Image
They've seen me make decisions, they've seen me under trying times, they've seen me weep, they've seen me laugh, they've seen me… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, there was a period of time, especially in my first career, when that's the only one who… — George Foreman Copy Share Image