The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human… — Hozier Copy Share Image
While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
The nature will continue, it's our existence that is finite and you are given this gift of life and you make your… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
This is something I think that blues music, or folk music, and all those particular genres that have a perspective about life… — Joan Osborne Copy Share Image
Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if… — Plato Copy Share Image
Apart from the emergency aid we provide to alleviate the sufferings of victims of natural disasters, calamities and crises, we worked for… — Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Copy Share Image
I think the whole human-induced greenhouse gas thing is a red herring... . I see climate change as due to the ocean… — William M. Gray Copy Share Image
So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
The decisions you make can be upsetting to fans. I've experienced that, as a listener, looking at artists I've admired. It's sensitive.… — Alex Scally Copy Share Image
It [the pharmaceutical industry] is the most profitable industry in the world, and partially funds the US government. It surpasses oil in… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
Shoes are a neutral blessing for us because feet generally aren't regarded as a place where the battle for self-esteem is won… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
We all get out, maybe for longer than we wish, because we all pass this mortal coil more or less and so… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
For [Louis] Brandeis, it's not a technical question of channeling what would James Madison say. It's how do we take these inherent… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential… — Vito Fossella Copy Share Image
When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment. — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
I don't really think of myself as a heartthrob. I've got a lot of brothers, and there's a natural competitiveness between us… — Ross Lynch Copy Share Image
People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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The trend lines in research and innovation look good for places such as India and China and less good for America as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
(Because) the notion of absolute truth is difficult to sustain outside the context of religion, ethical conduct is not something we engage… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most versatile lipstick you can own is a shade that's just a bit brighter than your natural lip color. — Bobbi Brown Copy Share Image
Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Unlike the urban development that I see taking over and swallowing up our precious soil, when we interact with our environment in… — Cory Trepanier Copy Share Image
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Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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