Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a… — James Loeb Copy Share Image
I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the… — Alan Feduccia Copy Share Image
We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol… — Roger Revelle Copy Share Image
Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
I know the questions will be around the money, the amount Chelsea had to spend to bring him here but that's the… — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the… — Walter Ciszek Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's uncritically enthusiastic modern disciples portray his invisible hand theory as saying that market forces reliably harness selfish individuals to serve… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
In a modern democracy, not only can a libertarian be elitist; a libertarian has to be elitist. To be a libertarian in… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
Individual and corporate support is vital to building on London's leadership in the arts, and I hope others will join me in… — Lloyd Dorfman Copy Share Image
For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single… — Victor Fung Copy Share Image
One current of continuity runs underneath all the abortive phases of my life. From childhood on I have been obliged to drop… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word,… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Our modern, deadline-a-day lifestyle overtaxes our adrenal glands, which end up overproducing cortisol, which in turn makes it nearly impossible to sleep… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
It appears a bold thing to say so when one sees how much many a modern author who knows how to make… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
