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Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by… — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth.… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
My films are about faith, and they're made on faith. There has to be faith because making a movie, so many things… — Richard Rossi Copy Share Image
The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We don't really know the ultimate outcome of our lives. All we can say is, "Fate has brought me thus far. This… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
The bay-trees in our country are all withered, And meteors fright the fixèd stars of heaven. The pale-faced moon looks bloody on… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity...… — Hermann Minkowski Copy Share Image
[Ho Chi Minh] was always conscious that conditions in China and Vietnam were not always the same. He "kowtowed" to the Chinese… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
Corporations wield enormous power in society.In order to see lasting social change, leaders in the private sector must begin to think of… — Darren Walker Copy Share Image
If you're going to believe in God, if you're going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then the God… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all,… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
'Quantum Leap' gave me a huge opportunity as an actor. The nature of the role and it's demands allowed people to perceive… — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
Do the knowledge, meaning: look, listen, observe, and also respect. If you do that, you'll have a strong foundation to build anything… — RZA Copy Share Image
I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed… — T'Keyah Crystal Keymah Copy Share Image
OTHERBOUND is a web of spells and counterspells, but Corinne Duyvis never loses sight of the bodies, minds and all-too-human emotions that… — Margo Lanagan Copy Share Image
I used to tiptoe up to my bedroom door and leap into my room in an attempt to surprise my dolls in… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
While the ACA's insurance expansions and reforms represent a great leap forward for the U.S., it is also true that when fully… — John E. McDonough Copy Share Image
It's high time to rescue "intelligent design" from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
If you're unwilling to leave someplace you've outgrown, you will never reach your full potential. To be the best, you have to… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Earl Scruggs wears two finger picks and a thumb pick, and by alternating them, he can play about as fast as he… — Earl Scruggs Copy Share Image
All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
In each life there comes at least one moment, which, if recognized and seized, transforms the course of that life forever. Rely,… — Ralph Blum Copy Share Image
We at Google have made tremendous advances in understanding language. Our knowledge graph has been fundamental to that. The new algorithm that… — Amit Singhal Copy Share Image
My training in science is actually one that is very critical of mechanistic science. I was trained in quantum theory which emerged… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I have a big-picture outlook, I am willing to fall, and I understand it's ok to fall, but I am going to… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
My cousin Georgia says that boys are like gazelles. She says the get alarmed when they get close to girls. And they… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Sure, we were friends who exchanged soulful glances, friends who slept in a bed filled with sexual tension, friends who found any… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image