This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
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Marriage should be about fun,” she says gently. “It’s about friendship, and laughter, and trust, and fun. If it’s not fun, if… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
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I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
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We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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“Dear Reader Once and its sequel Then are two parts of the same story, but they were written and published as two… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
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“Murphy’s grandfather, Paul Furst, told KSDK that Murphy was mentally challenged and did not deserve to die:4 I believe this is another… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share Image
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Fifteen years after the new dispensations started in South Africa, if one looks back, there are reasons to be positive and say… — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
“About sixty percent of Shin’s class was assigned to the coal mines, where accidental death from cave-ins, explosions, and gas poisonings was… — Blaine Harden Copy Share Image
Some time ago I took a trip on the Hudson and Manhattan Transit System. Not being familiar with the names of the… — James Keller Copy Share Image
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If we took 75% of the world’s trashed rangeland, we could restore it from agriculture back to functioning prairies — with their… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
Nowadays blues in particular has a wide, wide, wide, wide net of everything that's called blues. I think if somebody's coming to… — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image
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Fifteen years ago, nobody thought that content would ever work as a business. It was impossible to raise any money, initial investments… — Henry Blodget Copy Share Image
Viewers don't see more of anchors because we shoot only once a week and it's aired across three months; so, you always… — Karan Wahi Copy Share Image
“A true superstar, [Shaquille] O'Neal is one of the most widely recognized athletes in the world, especially at waffle houses and all-you-can-eat… — D.J. Gallo Copy Share Image
But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dan Brister's book bears witness to the last fifteen years of this bureaucratic madness to tame the last vestige of wild America… — Doug Peacock Copy Share Image
Look at the catastrophic record Vishy Anand has against Garry Kasparov. Kasparov managed to beat him almost everywhere they played, even though… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. That afternoon, back home again without the cat and without… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the revolution? The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
I've spent fifteen years of my life fighting for our right to be free and make love whenever, wherever... And you're telling… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
Those rosy memories we all share are actually memories from our favorite TV shows. We've confused our own childhoods with episodes of… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent of wwriting, but I couldn't give up, because by the time,… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So… — Ian Hart Copy Share Image