As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Follow the money, Washington reporters like to say. The money is this case comes from taxpayers, present and future, who are the… — Michael Barone Copy Share Image
By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
The interpretive mechanism of the left celebral hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking the meaning of events. It is constantly looking… — Michael Gazzaniga Copy Share Image
To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Everything you stand for, believe in, experience and aspire to is the result of thought. And thought is destructive because it is… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child,… — Wilder Penfield Copy Share Image
There is a system of terroristic states-the real terror network-that has spread throughout Latin America and elsewhere over the past several decades,… — Edward S. Herman Copy Share Image
I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
I think of depression as the mechanism that pushes down the pain of that loss. It tries to distance us from the… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Just think of the trust that often exists in soldiers. Within their own unit, you could say they have to trust each… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of game development, the game control mechanism has become more and more sophisticated, ... Perhaps those who have quit… — Satoru Iwata Copy Share Image
You will have to go deep into man. From where comes this violence? From where comes this exploitation? From where come all… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put… — Mabel Collins Copy Share Image
When my wife and I met, I couldn't talk to her - and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with… — Mike Vogel Copy Share Image
Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the… — Tim Bishop Copy Share Image
The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility. — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely. — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
The principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Tyrannosaurus is the most superb carnivorous mechanism among the terrestrial Vertebrata, in which raptorial power and speed are combined. — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity. — Fernando J. Corbato Copy Share Image
I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and… — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
I do agree with Stich that a quick move from our evolutionary origins to the reliability of our cognitive mechanisms is not… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Before I start a book, I talk over my characters with a friend who is a counselor. I like to make sure… — Chevy Stevens Copy Share Image
Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal… — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
People vastly overestimate the ability of central planners to improve on the independent action of diverse individuals. What I've learned watching regulators… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
The export of oil, the export of minerals, will for many decades continue to be a critical part for the growth of… — Patrice Motsepe Copy Share Image
The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism.… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
To allow the fear to come on you and then pass through. If you keep cutting the fear off by intervening -… — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
