This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us… — Ted Sizer Copy Share Image
above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now. — John Schlesinger Copy Share Image
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
True interest appears when the self identifies itself with ideas or objects, when it finds in them a means of expression and… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
I'm a young guy called 'commutative ring', but I was originally 'the ring of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space'. Now… — Kato Copy Share Image
When asked whether he minded if someone smoked in a non-smoking compartment. Certainly not if you don't object if I'm sick. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
Theta clearing is about as practical and simple as repairing a shoe lace. It is nothing to do with hypnotism, voodooism, charalatanism,… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“...man's sentimental attachment to objects is one of life's greatest consolations.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into… — Charles Willson Peale Copy Share Image
The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
A game may be as integral to a culture, as true an object of human aesthetic appreciation, as admirable a product of… — Michael Dummett Copy Share Image
They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Turbulence.” This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I've come to realize that I'm a image maker, not an object maker. Images come to me as photographs because I don't… — Gerardo Suter Copy Share Image
Think about the physical act of pulling a trigger. The amount of pressure it takes to pull a trigger or the speed… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Beautiful and familiar objects can help us to feel better. Photos of family and friends, which remind us of the people we… — Liz Miller Copy Share Image
We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Children should be encouraged to search out in nature the objects that illustrate Bible teachings, and to trace in the Bible the… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not… — James Allen Copy Share Image
It's my object to be stared at like a dog that's just been shown a card trick. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate,… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
