Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
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Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Professor Tillman. Most of us here are not scientists, so you may need to be a little less technical.’ This sort of… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
God is one among several hypotheses to account for the phenomena of human destiny, and it is now proving to be an… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week... The human being can consume so much and… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships. When one views the slaughter and suffering caused by religious intolerance… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I'm a parent. I have kids, and what's happening with our waters, and our oceans, and what's happening with deforestation, and all… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The title's so upfront. It gives fair warning about the play's content. I'm writing about a kind of disenchantment, an anger, but… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
God must've had a blast. painting the stripes on the zebra, hanging the stars in the sky, putting the gold in the… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
Being in relationship is not living in a fantasyland and don't think that everything's going to be perfect all the time. You… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The classic theology of my tradition comes from the French Renaissance. [William] Shakespeare was born in 1564, the year [John] Calvin died,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
And so it is true in this sense that there is essentially but one religion, the religion of the living God. For… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
Given the scale of life in the cosmos, one human life is no more than a tiny blip. Each one of us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness and using… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
We must embrace our differences, even celebrate our diversity. We must glory in the fact that God created each of us as… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Evolution is always the work of pioneers, and their followers are always small in number. This following is not a clique; it… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I'm trying to understand how do we tell lies to ourselves to justify what we've done and what are the consequences of… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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