Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
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We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
At an individual level just as much as a corporate level, this notion of if you're not really passionate about the work… — John Hagel III Copy Share Image
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In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
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Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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I believe the only limitations are the ones that we accept. I know that there is, in theory, a glass ceiling. But… — Debbi Fields Copy Share Image
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It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. Were this sentiment generally… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
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If something's public then it seems like the important thing is the person in that public. And the notion of rhetoric. I… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone.… — George Formby Copy Share Image
Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure.… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
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We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
The highest state of meditation is Samadhi, where there is no ego anymore, no doubts, no me, no you, no notion of… — Dharma Mittra Copy Share Image
I think you should use whatever power you have to try to help people who need your help. Then we'd all be… — Clive Stafford Smith Copy Share Image
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'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters'… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
The notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this… — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image
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I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy,… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Americans have a strange notion that the ordinary laws of economics do not apply to them. So doubtless they will think they… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
If you look back in history, as the barbarians were invading the gates of Rome, people were consulting fortunetellers and worrying about… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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![“[Speaking about same-sex marriage] It's about familiarity, and I think the only reason they're uncomfortable with the notion of same-sex marriages is because they haven't come into contact with gay and lesbian couples enough to understand that it's about love - and that it is a civil right.” quote by Jennifer Beals](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2c5/jennifer-beals-10022_contact_speaking-about-same-sex-marriage-it-s-ab_1139976.jpg)
