The Ottoman Empire . . . The rulers in Turkey were fortunately so corrupt that they left people alone pretty much -… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A democratic public forms when citizens gather together to deliberate and make public judgments about local and national issues that affect their… — Kevin Mattson Copy Share Image
Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains."… — Fran Drescher Copy Share Image
I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Health experts working on a union backed screening program to detect bladder cancer in a Georgia chemical plant were stunned when the… — Jack Anderson Copy Share Image
Chinese movies are not just about making Chinese local movies. It's about the Chinese money, the Chinese creativeness participating in a global… — Bruno Zheng Wu Copy Share Image
I still support the right of local communities to make up their own minds about whether or not they want to permit… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
[Columbia House] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read,… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive… — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
I think very highly of Expo and all is going well. We've seen big problems with [corruption] scandals [at local government level],… — Franca Sozzani Copy Share Image
Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The primary role of the church is to reflect God's value system in society and to train people in that value system.… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Recently I have been spending my lunch with other game directors playing over local connection battle in Spirit Tracks. It is very… — Eiji Aonuma Copy Share Image
Our government's investments in science, technology and innovation are ensuring that ideas move from the lab to the marketplace faster, creating jobs… — Julian Fantino Copy Share Image
Serving the emerging whole means paying attention to what's right here within my awareness, what's completely local, and surrendering to what's being… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Not long time ago there was a striking example of the extent to which English has diverged: a television company put out… — Larry Trask Copy Share Image
There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local… — Edward S. Herman Copy Share Image
Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image