We have now reached a level where we should be even more ambitious. We should focus on more tangible mechanisms and outcomes.… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence… — Tansy Rayner Roberts Copy Share Image
I wish I trusted people more. But when I meet someone, the first thing is, 'What does this person want?' And I… — Derek Jeter Copy Share Image
Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, 'Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?'… — Neil Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
'Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
We have very stable mechanisms of conflict resolution in terms of labor relations, we have a very good transportation infrastructure, we provide… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is… — Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Copy Share Image
In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Can we say that the constitutional monarchies in Spain, Belgium or England are democratic? Those with superior chambers like the House of… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
The Fed needs to adopt new tools, on its own and perhaps in cooperation with the other parts of the US government,… — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
All the great masters in the world have been saying only one thing down the centuries, "Have your own mind and have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior… — Fernando J. Corbato Copy Share Image
In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability -… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research. — James R Newman Copy Share Image
It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much… — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
“What believer of faith among us can claim to understand the exact mechanistic structure of a world created by a god/God?” — Kevin Michel Copy Share Image
Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it. — John Battelle Copy Share Image
The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space? Our minds embrace infinity; the visible… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to… — Wilder Penfield Copy Share Image
Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
Your very success is what's going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you've developed is the very thing which will cause… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
