People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
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Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through… — Elgin Groseclose Copy Share Image
Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
We think of Craigslist as a form of Social Media.We provide a simple service that is mostly free and we leave money… — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have… — Fernando Bujones Copy Share Image
Often, when I want to read something that is satisfying to me as theology, what I actually read is string theory, or… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
But you know, I'm very conscious that people criticize Hollywood. Yet we've created a form, the Western, that can be understood in… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
The isolated individual is not a real person. A real person is one who lives in and for others. And the more… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have. Generating those feelings is… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
here are problems with the Turkish products inside Russia and the tourism going down. People are worried about that. But the really… — Peter Kenyon Copy Share Image
It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul [come from black innovation]. You talk about different… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
A man is likewise form and expression, a written sign thrown unto boundless matter, an undifferentiated word of what is. I've therefore… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image