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Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Basically we're puppeteers and if you're there and you're in the character, the puppet is going to look good. It's going to… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
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In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
“They bury their dead with their heads directly downward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven thousand moons they are all… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low for Heaven!… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
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America's humanitarian concern for foreign victims of natural disasters or civil strife is being abused by President Bush when he extends legal… — Dan J. Stein Copy Share Image
“Few problems are less recognized, but more important than, the accelerating disappearance of the earth’s biological resources. In pushing other species to… — Peter P. Marra Copy Share Image
“It lands halfway down the skirt. The red wine against the green silk makes it look like Gaia, the primordial earth mother,… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“They are subjected to all manner of taxes: the tithe, the hearth tax and the capitation tax. When all those are paid,… — Simon Scarrow Copy Share Image
The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
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Man in harmony with his Creator is sublime, and his action is creative; equally, once he separates himself from God and acts… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
When you think about what Homo sapiens are about, you almost feel that we are replacing ourselves. We won't be able to… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
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“Blood bears all it has known and seen unto the following generations. Those who tread the earth leave the scent of memory,… — Linda Joy Myers Copy Share Image
What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden.-Have,… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
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You cannot put women and men on an equal footing. It is against nature. They were created differently. Their nature is different.… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
“[I]t implies great force of subjectivity to accept as certain something in contradiction with rational, normal experience. … Wishes own no restraint,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Truth is man's nature; to be untrue is to be false to one's nature. dharma (Right Action) is the practical application in… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
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For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“...but there were four things I taught Walter to consider: 1) That it was Cain who built the first City, 2) That… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been making movies for a long time. The Japanese way of making movies has become second nature to me. To get… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
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Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship… — Euell Gibbons Copy Share Image
By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Respecting the environment does not mean considering material or animal nature more important than man. Rather, it means not selfishly considering nature… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image