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
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Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems.… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
In a community of human beings working together, the well-being of the community will be the greater, the less the individual claims… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
The woods are never solitary– they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I believe nostalgia has many appearances and that it's not just the privilege of adults. I think children too can have nostalgia.… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Within three hours of a disaster event there should be a recon damage assessment of the infrastructure and an educated guess as… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
My personal belief is we should not bow to any object. But Islam was aware of this human weakness and fulfilled that… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
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The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moves toward sovereignty in Iraq stimulate pressures first for human rights among the bitterly repressed Shi'ite population but also toward some degree… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most radical thing we followers of Jesus can do in the information age is treat each other like humans-not heroes,… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not… — Ruth Whitman Copy Share Image
Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
I think that's deeply rooted in Muslim consciousness, the idea of not submitting to anything other than God. "You can abuse me,… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Most of us live our lives desperately trying to conceal the anguishing gap between our polished, aspirational, representational selves and our real,… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
We owe them [animals] a decent life and a decent death, and their lives should be as low-stress as possible. That's my… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
It's a strange sort of attack, to be sure: a wonderfully pacific attack, a supportive attack, an attack without the slightest intention… — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate… — Dave Rodgers Copy Share Image
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What you learn is often determined by what you need to know. If you think you're weak, you will learn that you… — John Bingham Copy Share Image
War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
Never lose yourself on the stage. Always act in your own person, as an artist. The moment you lose yourself on the… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
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The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the… — Beilby Porteus Copy Share Image
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator… — Will Self Copy Share Image
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I should say tact was worth much more than wealth as a road to leadership… I mean that subtle apprehension which teaches… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Slavery in America was perpetuated not merely by human badness but also by human blindness. ... Men convinced themselves that a system… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee… — William Golding Copy Share Image
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