The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is,… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
I'm one of the people who believes that our losses were greater than our gains. Because before the Civil Rights movement we… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
There is a cultural norm on the left of being afraid to declare victory, which is related to the binary of reform/revolution.… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
Speeches by businessmen on social responsibility...may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
Our Heavenly Father, who loves us completely and perfectly, permits us to have experiences that will allow us to develop the traits… — James B. Martino Copy Share Image
Be not afraid, though every stay Should fail, or be removed away, And thou be stript of all; But lose thyself in… — Gerhard Tersteegen Copy Share Image
Sustaining innovation is the lifeblood of any enterprise. It is the time when we capitalize upon, and recover from, all the disruptive… — Geoffrey Moore Copy Share Image
Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Images of people, cities, and landscapes from the air tell a unique story about our personal space and how we relate to… — Vincent Laforet Copy Share Image
Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
People might gain insight the longer they live, but things never get easy. There will always be challenges and miscommunications and the… — Rob Payne Copy Share Image
How you educate the people around you, what steps you take toward making it better, what sacrifices you make. The equation of… — Andrew Hawkins Copy Share Image
When we can let go of what other people think and own our story, we gain access to our worthiness—the feeling that… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Capturing Saddam Hussein and ensuring that this brutal dictator will never return to power is an important step toward stabilizing Iraq for… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The Christian who drinks cannot win his drinking companions to Christ. The girl who dances will never win her dancing boyfriend! You… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
We are more put off by people who parade their dignity than by people who show off their wardrobes. When people have… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Maybe a man in a million could unite the Hallows, Harry. I was fit only to possess the meanest of them, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Newbie gains” are very real and boil down to the simple fact that your muscles respond exceptionally well to just about any… — Michael Matthews Copy Share Image
Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But all three of them had had to lose things in order to gain other things. Will had lost his shell and… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
There is provided an escape from the narrowness and poverty of the individual life, and the possibility of a life which is… — John Caird Copy Share Image
A child is nothing like a racing car. . . . Souping up babies doesn't work that way. The child is what… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in… — William James Copy Share Image
So smile when you read a headline that says "Investors lose as market falls." Edit it in your mind to "Disinvestors lose… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ.… — Pope Benedict XIV Copy Share Image
Well, think of what I’m doing to you right now. For me I’m the self, and you’re the object. For you, of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up,… — Jorge Cruise Copy Share Image
When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The gentleman has nine cares. In seeing he is careful to see clearly; in hearing he is careful to hear distinctly; in… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
