When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
You know, Qhuinn's an interesting character." Saxton reached out with an elegant hand and picked up his port. "He's one of my… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity.… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
In terms of content, a lot of rap is crap, with all the sexism and homophobic bullshit. It's incredible how rappers are… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Yes, Kālāmas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in a matter which… — The Buddha Copy Share Image
“The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
After all, we scientific workers ... like women, are the victims of fashion: at one time we wear dissociated ions, at another… — Henry Edward Armstrong Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that?… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and… — Donna Woolfolk Cross Copy Share Image
Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
