For years, members of Congress have heard from constituents who want them to protect the nation from crime, terrorism and intellectual property… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I yearn for intellectual sustenance on vacation but want, of course, to avoid tedium or boredom. I want to read something that… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
The role of the federal government is to protect our liberties. That means they should protect our religious liberties to do what… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
“Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it.… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points… — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image
Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince;… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Keep children as much as possible by themselves ... keep them from company, good or bad. ... It will be generally found… — Jacob Abbott Copy Share Image
Nothing fans me into such a state of peaceful mental somnambulance as the intellectual antics of a person who displays his learning,… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
“[On famous Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr] [Niels] Bohr's sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of… — Finn Aaserud Copy Share Image
If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Science is a highly technical and intellectual endeavor. Any theory or fact or discovery has an ocean of depth to it. You… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about; and those who preach faith and enable and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Darwin believed in intellectual progress, but he believed that it would come smoothly and harmoniously and happily and it would eventually cover… — James Moore Copy Share Image
Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
My childhood is more hick than I could ever possibly relate to you, and also more intellectual than you would ever expect.… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under… — Serge Lang Copy Share Image
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime,… — John Bruton Copy Share Image
The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
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