Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That,… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for… — Malorie Blackman Copy Share Image
My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
And I want to thank all the women that support me. I have wonderful support systems from women of all types who… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Racism is an attack on the very notion of the universality of human rights. It systematically denies certain people the enjoyment of… — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly. Take a photographer like Mapplethorpe. Every… — John Coplans Copy Share Image
The classic example I've used - I'm sure you've heard me say it before - was Mark Begich in Alaska who was… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it. With them morality was violated, but moral notions remained intact. The… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The modern [endtimes] notion has greatly damped the zeal of the church for missions, and the sooner it is shown to be… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It seems to me patently obvious that we can no more respect and tolerate vast differences in notions of human well-being than… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
For the historian everything begins and ends with time, a mathematical, godlike time, a notion easily mocked, time external to men, 'exogenous,'… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
But look at the men who have those perverted notions about the grace of Jesus Christ which has come down to us,… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self interest for himself, his family, and the future… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I feel humiliated that I live in a country that demands more already. Why do we cling to the notion that not… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
In the end, Tuesday's vote represented a repudiation of virtually every notion Democrats embraced in recent weeks as they tried to disregard… — Byron York Copy Share Image
The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of dreaming ... helped to build up the notion of an unreal or spiritual world; and in general, all the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I do deeply deplore, of the sake of the cause, the prevalent notion, that the clergy must be had, either by persuasion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind,… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Long gone is the time when we opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
So: if you buy the notion that reality consists of the things in your freeze-frame mental image right now, and if you… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
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