Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Provocative and challenging The Social License makes a compelling case for why companies must look to increase their positive social impact as… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then,… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Whatever you focus upon, increases......When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing......A grateful perspective brings happiness and… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
When you focus on how people feel about what they are saying, you increase the level of true concern you have for… — Garrison Wynn Copy Share Image
If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We want to increase our investment so the next year we'll borrow less. We want to make sure that we provide more… — Hesham Qandil Copy Share Image
Rarely do we realize that if we simply take time to marvel at life’s gifts and give thanks for them, we activate… — Angeles Arrien Copy Share Image
When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love… — Joseph Henry Shorthouse Copy Share Image
It's estimated that about 30 percent of the increase in grain prices could be attributed to the decision to embrace biofuels, particularly… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There is a certain increase in the importance I assign to women in getting us out of the mess that we are… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
We need to increase our military spending. We need to deal with a no- fly zone in Syria, a safe zone. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
We would like, still the numbers to increase, and so we're hoping that there's far - there will be many more women… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
Extreme weather like the droughts in Russia, China and Brazil and the flooding in Pakistan and Australia [in 2010] have contributed to… — John Beddington Copy Share Image
The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
One of the things Obama's been doing is deliberately trying to increase the percentage of our population that is dependent on government… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
Smart cities are those who manage their resources efficiently. Traffic, public services and disaster response should be operated intelligently in order to… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
When I seek him, root my values and desires in him, when I found my relationships and sense of self on him,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The federal government is a machine designed to increase its control over the lives of average Americans. It is constantly probing here,… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
