The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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“With every choice, even the choice of inactivity, we must shut the door to a host of alternate futures. Each step we… — Michael David Lukas Copy Share Image
When confronted with iron-will determination, I can see Time, Fate and Circumstance calling a hasty conference and deciding, We might as well… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
The immortal mind, superior to his fate, amid the outrage of external things, firm as the solid base of this great world,… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
For the hundredth time tonight, I’m back with Lulu, on Jacques’s barge, the improbably named Viola. She’d just toldme the story of… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Now comes the threat of climate crisis - a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
“The outcome of my cumulative life’s work is still undetermined. Chance, fate, attitude, aptitude, and preparedness to pursue new opportunities will regulate… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
There has to be spiritual transformation among the masses, who have to be willing to recognize that their oppression is not a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them,… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“If you call your failures and all the bad things happen to you a destiny; or similarly, you call all the good… — JOHN TASKINSOY Copy Share Image
Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
There are people and places and events you'd prefer to forget or at least gloss over. In the end, you can slap… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the… — Allan Pinkerton Copy Share Image
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I can read significance into tiny, tiny things. If I'd met someone 10 years ago and not seen them again, and then… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
“What did you see when you died?" He has that tenative half smile, like he's almost embarrassed by what he's saying. "Because… — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
“you said. if it is meant to be. fate will bring us back together. for a second i wonder if you are… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
... I'm the fortieth-ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what! What if someday she lets me kiss each one… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I shall look for whatever success may attend my public service; and knowing that "except the Lord keep the city the watchman… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Woodrow Wilson is reported to have told a Princeton colleague, shortly after the 1912 election, "It would be an irony of fate… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
Knowing your customer inside and out is mission-critical, and it takes time. It's impossible to hit on the insights that will ultimately… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
There are a whole lot of little tales told in 'Presumed Innocent,' whether it's about the Hobberly kid, who was an important… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
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