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Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing;… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
People need to learn how to respond to each other's hatreds with love - which is what Jesus taught us, which is… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945 was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved the ablest commander in… — Erich von Manstein Copy Share Image
The most extreme types, like Murray Rothbard, are at least honest. They'd like to eliminate highway taxes because they force you to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
You should understand that private faith does not force public decisions. That's how you work at compromise. I haven't given up what… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
With Leighton Smith in charge, we've got a Navy admiral running a predominantly land campaign - the first ever in NATO's 47-year… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
From the results so far obtained it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the long-range atoms arising from collision of alpha… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
Everyone is now considered a potential terrorist, providing a rational for both the government and private corporations to spy on anybody, regardless… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
And I've been waiting for you, because I couldn't do anything else. And we've both known that we would meet again, and… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
An EU without Britain, without 1 of Europe's strongest powers, a country which in many ways invented the single market, and which… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I think all of us are agreed that war is probably man's greatest stupidity and I think peace is the dream that… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You build the bonds through the community and police force, build bonds of understanding, and then when people feel comfortable in their… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really -… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project.… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
I ask you not to judge me for my weakness. The only way I can endure is to be in a place… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
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Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is what meditation is all about, just becoming a watcher. Failure comes, success comes, you are praised, you are condemned, you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There's been a lot of talk about body cameras as a silver bullet or a solution. I think the task force concluded… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I write first drafts feverishly fast, and then I spend years editing. It's not that sentence-by-sentence perfectionist technique some writers I admire… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When you go out to make something, you want it to be great. You need to put a bubble around that, so… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others it can take over… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
A weapon based on Time . . ." mused Viktor Mulciber. "Well, why not? The one force no one knows how to… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The notion of rights is linked with the notion of sharing out, of exchange, of measured quantity. It has a commercial flavor,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image