The most spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
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Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated,… — Kamla Persad-Bissessar Copy Share Image
I worry myself sick about emotional pain, and then I either get on the mat, or get on my bike, and just… — Sameer Gadhia Copy Share Image
Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources. — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
What is tragic today is that there is a number of Muslims who think that all the solutions are to be found… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
What Batman is saying is that, "I want to try something new that's more about this era and this moment." And I… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
I'm not from around these parts. I'm from a little place called England: we used to run the world before you. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
With Spurr, I like to think we're a modern, European-influenced brand that does luxurious, handcrafted, and wearable pieces. — Simon Spurr Copy Share Image
You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no… — Humbert Wolfe Copy Share Image
You do realise modern social mores exist for a reason?" "I was hungry, allowances should be made. — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
A post-9/11, modern take being Batman training people to be the heroes they know they can be on their own. — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble.… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
I didn't know why I was coming to this room. Someone just told me to go to Sam Raimi's office. I knew… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
Yongsan Garrison is an important venue representing Korea's modern history which will be preserved. — Park Won-soon Copy Share Image
I made music on Seven the same way as on the other albums. I only used acoustic instruments... I'm looking for instruments… — Marie Daulne Copy Share Image
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I catch myself. Or, 'If I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump… — George Will Copy Share Image
Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing. — Sophie Ristelhueber Copy Share Image
O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image