It is clear to us that, for good or for evil, our vitality is concentrated in our religion. You cannot change it.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to… — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
There are many examples of companies and countries that have improved their competitiveness and efficiency by adopting open source strategies. The creation… — Mark Shuttleworth Copy Share Image
The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are… — John Frankenheimer Copy Share Image
Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is,… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
From the Anarchist standpoint, these artificial hindrances which are the cause of three main forms of usury-interest, profit, and rent, are, in… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share Image
When Edison first started out with his "crazy" idea for the light bulb, skeptics were unmoved. They called Thomas Edison a con… — Linda Rottenberg Copy Share Image
If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance. One's life completely changes… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The best idea ever thought of in the history of humanity is useless unless someone communicates it. It will die in the… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
A man deserves credit when he accomplishes something of importance. Something that provides for the betterment of his life and his family's… — Therese Anne Fowler Copy Share Image
Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
In the Communist era, excrement took on political importance, because Party policy decided excrement was essential for the Great Agricultural Leap Forward. — Rose George Copy Share Image
I close my eyes And sink within myself Relive the gift of precious memories In need of a fix called innocence When… — Chuck Schuldiner Copy Share Image
Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently,… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
The art of moviemaking seems to get thrown away. The cinematography is gone, and the look of everything becomes of little importance.… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
What we understand to be profoundness, or importance, it changes. It should change. It should be this moment where you cannot believe… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's really important for people who are HIV positive to reach out to let other people know that they can be tested,… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens; evenafter… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. Far above it in importance are the infinite number of… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
One of the biggest lessons I learned from nearly dying of cancer is the importance of loving myself unconditionally. In fact, learning… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word.… — Bob Ehrlich Copy Share Image
It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a… — Carl Levin Copy Share Image
When the motives of artists are profound, when they are at their work as a result of deep consideration, when they believe… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of… — Charles Osgood Copy Share Image