A novel, even a social realist one, can't simply be a comprehensive rendering of what is. A novel requires a special angle… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“Sunday is God's day, and he was committed to honoring it. Just because he was in Paris to compete in the Olympics… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
“Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default… — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In terms of other people's perception of me, that's their business. There are people who I have never met but, for whatever… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
A lot of actors say that no villain wants to be a villain, generally. They don't might being evil, maybe, but they… — Liam McIntyre Copy Share Image
The darkness that we see in our world today is due to the disintegration of things out of harmony with God's laws.… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Those of us who believe in free markets and those of us who believe that in fact the whole goal of investment… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just… — Zeljko Ivanek Copy Share Image
The idea of any social obligation [...] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is a cage in which you are trapped in an endless cycle of constantly wanting more - sexually - that you… — Michael Glatze Copy Share Image
When virtuous mental attitudes, like mindfulness, respect, and compassion, are invoked to justify nonvirtuous acts like hunting, fishing, and eating animal products,… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
I change clothes at least three times a day. It's the only way I can justify all the shopping I do. Prada… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
For ages the world has been living by the stupidity of an old Roman adage that says if you want peace, prepare… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The right thing to do usually comes straight from your gut. When you work fast, you tend to work more from the… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Whatever your beliefs are, you do not have to justify them to others. — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious. — Walter Sickert Copy Share Image
I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, 'You were a… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
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