There's a legal term for a problem in public space: something that might draw people to an area-say, across train tracks-where they… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
As Christians we are tempted to make unnecessary concessions to those outside the faith. We give in too much. Now, I don't… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going… — Montgomery Clift Copy Share Image
I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My problems are sort of more on a nuisance level. I can't stand scratchy clothes, I've got to have soft kinds of… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
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