To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In the middle of a garden grew a rose tree; it was full of roses, and in the loveliest of them all… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
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“...the sea's only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong. Now, I don't know much about the sea,… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I don't believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Human beings have got a lot of good, noble impulses inside them, and most people want to be good and do more… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
We hold that the ownership of private property is the right and privilege of every American citizen and is one of the… — John Rarick Copy Share Image
Let no one imagine that he will lose anything of human dignity by this voluntary sell-out of his all to his God.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It's interesting when you're doing signing sessions with other writers and you look at the queues at each table and you can… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
If we clear the air of the fog of catchwords which surround the conduct of war, and grasp that in the human… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist,… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
You have to stand up and be a human. You have to honor the man or woman that you are. Respect your… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
this is what I know about courage: You don't have to think about courage to have it. You don't have to feel… — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
Economic progress means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The advantage of pure, and the disadvantage of impure air are experienced each time we breathe, and all who understand the causes… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
I literally cried on Lisa Joy's shoulder when it ended. Just, "Thank you." Because those roles [like Dolores in the Westworld] are… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
We risk great peril if we kill off this spirit of adventure, for we cannot predict how and in what seemingly unrelated… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Humans have a saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", which basically means that if you think it's beautiful,… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men,… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
No man should be viewed as having more to offer the world than another. We are all equals and every human being… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog. He has… — Gary A. Kowalski Copy Share Image
Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Kids should be taught about sex, sex hygiene and contraceptive methods starting in the sixth grade, and whenever they want to try… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image