A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The effects of MFA programs, and the rise of creative writing instruction more generally, are far more diffuse than people think. Even… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
College is a safe space where it can be hard to truly fail. The institution is rooting for you because your failure… — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share Image
Our political way of life is by the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
You know, there's a growing level of disenchantment with governing institutions in Brazil. And in a sense, it's a healthy development because… — Simon Romero Copy Share Image
Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed,… — Aime Cesaire Copy Share Image
Has Obama ever grown even a potted plant, much less a business, a bank, a hospital or any of the numerous other… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question… — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
"Naming Tokyo" kicked off at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in June, and it's going to travel to various art institutions… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that's the gate through which… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I don't know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn't feel like a line… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days,… — Henry Kravis Copy Share Image
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Because it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, civil marriage is an esteemed institution, and… — Margaret H. Marshall Copy Share Image
Home is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Finding the balance between making financial institutions safe and secure and also fostering economic growth and job creation is what we need.… — Bob Diamond Copy Share Image
The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in a variety of ways. Where… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
The streets of New York and some wards of its venerable institutions were packed with people who, despite being entirely forsaken, had… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I think it's been, you know, kind of like a tragic play to this point. But at this point, I think it's… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We should be in the business of protecting cherished institutions and our cultural heritage, otherwise what, I ask, is a Conservative party… — Edward Leigh Copy Share Image
Some of the power has shifted from companies to people. Using social media tools (blogs, wikis, tagging, etc.) more individuals are creating… — Charlene Li Copy Share Image
If the Africans and Arabs were ruling Spain from 711 to 1492, had they destroyed the Catholic church, they still would be… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been… — Gerald Heaney Copy Share Image
The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time… — Robert Shaw Copy Share Image
Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world -… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a… — Mary B. Harris Copy Share Image
Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
When institutions are endowed to train women for all departments connected with the family state, domestic labor, now so shunned and disgraced,… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
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