Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
The brain processes meaning before detail. Providing the gist, the core concept, first was like giving a thirsty person a tall glass… — John Medina Copy Share Image
For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The paradox in China is that while some things change very rapidly, others don't. The appearance of its cities may be entirely… — Sze Tsung Leong Copy Share Image
As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Successful entrepreneurs may hate hierarchies and structures and try to destroy them. They may garner the disapproval of MBAs for their creativity… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
We are left with the feeling that the church has overdone it, no matter how you cut it, and that homosexuals have… — Paul King Jewett Copy Share Image
It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Going back to school is like going back in time. Immediately, for better or for worse, you must give up a little… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
“One of the key characteristics of an elite corps is its susceptibility to those more powerful than itself. Elite power is naturally… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“In almost any group of people you’ll find hierarchy. When groups of adults form in the real world, it’s generally for some… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
Within the lesbian community I am Black, and within the Black community I am a lesbian. Any attack against Black people is… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
One of my first observations about New York that I was so fascinated with was that you'd be at a stoplight and… — Kevin Morby Copy Share Image
A long long time ago I took an oath to tell all secrets that came my way. Don't tell me a secret,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting... For I myself, though… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
Speaking as Coulson, it's unclear. I feel like that are other formidable S.H.I.E.L.D. elements and they don't have Coulson's connection to some… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
The word of God has provided nine explanatory designations of the heavenly beings... the first group is forever around God and is… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism,… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
I feel that discrimination and hierarchy is something that people have to face constantly. — Radhika Apte Copy Share Image
O latest born and loveliest vision far of all Olympus' faded hierarchy. — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Money should come from hard work and study, not marriage to emperors...” — E.I. Thompson Copy Share Image
People are learning to grasp the diversity of nature, to understand its unifying principles and to sweep away the hierarchies and see… — Frank Schatzing Copy Share Image
Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
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