Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that my origin and ethnicity have strongly influenced controversy over my invention of email. — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention. — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Do not allow anyone to tell you what kind of a person you are inside except God himself, for every inventor knows… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain;… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
My own interest is the responsibility of people to be responsible for their own lives and, with their neighbors, for their public… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
It is possible that, in fact, Trump's call for "America First" (despite evoking unpleasant recollections that such a phrase was the invention… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
You can travel from one end of the industrialized world to the other and almost the only people you will find engaging… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
At Facebook, we’re inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information. We often talk about inventions like the… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific… — Paul Flory Copy Share Image
All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Computers and rocket ships are examples of invention, not of understanding. ... All that is needed to build machines is the knowledge… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
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