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If you're an independent, you don't get on TV. And in the rare instances that you do get on, you get a… — Lloyd Kaufman Copy Share Image
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information,… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
If we reduced the amount we spend on maintaining our nuclear weapons by a small fraction, we could reallocate those funds to… — Ben Cohen Copy Share Image
All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
I make a living off of playing shows; the albums only make me a fraction of what I make off of shows,… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
I have gone up in the Pyramids and the stones are so close together you can't force a playing card between them… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I find focusing clearly on the problem is the first step to seeing a solution. The problem is (a) the insane amount… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
I tilted my chin up a fraction. "You can't f-force me to stay here." I'd only agreed to come this far because… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I saw Dad's eyes widen just a fraction when he heard my voice catch. He glanced at me but quickly turned away.… — Perry Moore Copy Share Image
Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calender. We are… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Love is insistent on its own continuation. Every fraction of a second, someone somewhere falls in love, a former enemy becomes a… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
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It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress… — Allen Newell Copy Share Image
Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Our physical senses and our embodied brains allow us to perceive only a small fraction of reality. We cannot see microbes or… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
The longest time that man may live, The lapse of generations of his race, The continent entire of time itself, Bears not… — James Sheridan Knowles Copy Share Image
A very high fraction of America's economic problems come not from our difficulties with education or globalization or competition with the Chinese… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Software: These programs give instruction to the CPU, which processes billions of tiny facts called bytes, and within a fraction of a… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The whole universe was stilled as if listening for a voice. For the space of one heartbeat there was peace on earth.… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The fundamental act of medical care is assumption of responsibility. Surgery has assumed responsibility for disease which is largely acute, local or… — Francis Daniels Moore Copy Share Image
Britain, with the most completely socialized health system in the West, now spends the lowest fraction of GNP on health care of… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Past, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The curve and the fast one are important; the change of pace and the other trick deliveries are great but they're not… — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Well, anyway, her death changed our lives for the better, because it brought a kind of awareness, a specific sense of purpose… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
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