The incredible story of progress that is America has always been built by those who ask why, what if, and why not.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North… — Peter York Copy Share Image
She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The massive quantities of radiation that would be released in a war fought with nuclear weapons might, over time, cause such great… — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image
"Do you believe in intuition?" "No, but I have a strange feeling that someday I will." People who take cold baths never… — Henrik Tikkanen Copy Share Image
Even a cursory reading of the book of Ecclesiastes shows that culture is a stationary bike that each generation climbs on in… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss… — Gloria Reuben Copy Share Image
My main interest is the problem of the singularity. If we can't understand what happened at the singularity we came out of,… — Neil Turok Copy Share Image
We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
That is what is most special about achieving equality - the positive signal that it will send the world over to the… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing… — Greg Walden Copy Share Image
The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes - and they're… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a generation, Generation X or whatever we were called, we were not being nurtured. We didn't have Obama. We didn't have… — Brett Morgen Copy Share Image
It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
What I've always tried to do is to express the highest point of me, and rock 'n' roll is the first and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
A woman with a mother heart has a testimony of the restored gospel, and she teaches the principles of the gospel without… — Julie B. Beck Copy Share Image
What is clear is that the earth is mandating that the human community assume a responsibility never assigned to any previous generation...Our… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
My parents joined in the 60s and at that time it was really important - there was a group mentality. I could… — Taraka Larson Copy Share Image
I think we may be seeing the beginnings of a resurgence of civic-mindedness in this country. Hopefully the younger generations, which came… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Within forty years of their arrival in the Plymouth colony, the first white settlers were afraid their children had lost the dedication… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including… — Ann Shulgin Copy Share Image
The ecological crisis shows the urgency of a solidarity which embraces time and space... A greater sense of intergenerational solidarity is urgently… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Young people realize that something is amiss. There's a generation that fell in love with their phones, and it's very hard for… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
Generations of black women have anxiously watched as our children walk out into a world set against them. We teach them how… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
“You are on your way to building a significant life when your service to others stops focusing on the now and the… — Mensah Oteh Copy Share Image
The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception,… — Douglas Engelbart Copy Share Image
All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The human response it calls for is truly heroic, requiring nothing short of rewiring the entire planet with a new generation of… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
