The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles. — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
As Jeremy Bentham had asked about animals well over two hundred years ago, the question was not whether they could reason or… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
Hip-Hop got turned into Hit Pop, The second a record was number one on the pop charts. But don't skip on the… — MC Serch Copy Share Image
One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. — Beilby Porteus Copy Share Image
As much as you act like everything is programmed or calculated or researched or numbers, spins, radio, and clubs, it's still human… — No I.D Copy Share Image
I've done a number of studies with speed dating and Match.com and what's interesting is that you know we still walk into… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
You can graduate a man's progress in religion by the amount of prayer, not by the number of hours perhaps, but by… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The number of hypotheses and theories about climate change are numerous. Quite naturally they have caught the public attention, as any proof… — Eduard Bruckner Copy Share Image
A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
One-third of the planet's population, over two billion people, has never heard the gospel. And of that number, over 50,000 die daily,… — David Sills Copy Share Image
No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of… — William Petty Copy Share Image
What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. Roughly speaking,… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction. — Richard Myers Copy Share Image
A lot of people want to have market share numbers, lots of users, because that's how they view their self worth. For… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I want to prove to my fans that I am beyond candy floss roles and item numbers. — Amruta Khanvilkar Copy Share Image
When I consider what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number. I also observed that every… — Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi Copy Share Image
The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he make mistakes, they must… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done… — David Lange Copy Share Image
I love the fact that Oprah Winfrey comes out number one [most admired women], regardless of who you are, because she has… — Michel Martin Copy Share Image
The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ford is leaving. You see that, their small car division leaving. Thousands of jobs leaving Michigan, leaving Ohio. They're all leaving. And… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The world has known only very few rebels. But now is the time: if humanity proves incapable of producing a large number… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
China's economy became more complex. By now there is a large number of small- and medium-sized companies that work quite differently from… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
Sound economic fundamentals coupled with a number of positive factors have partially offset the psychological impact of rising interest rates in Hong… — Li Ka-shing Copy Share Image
First, I think it proper to express my unshaken opinion of the immortality of my soul or mind; and to dedicate and… — Henry Knox Copy Share Image
The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's… — John Adams Copy Share Image