So we [with Kate DiCamillo] decided to give the friends an object and see what they did with it. The object was… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
A painting is an object which has an emphatic frontal surface. On such a surface, I paint a black band which does… — Jo Baer Copy Share Image
It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
the leader releases energy, unites energies, and all with the object not only of carrying out a purpose, but of creating further… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says harsh words to me. I feel anger… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Has God no living church? He has a church, but it is the church militant, not the church triumphant. We are sorry… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
What do we mean by the defeat of the enemy? Simply the destruction of his forces, whether by death, injury, or any… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms,… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It… — Vance Palmer Copy Share Image
We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The days of life are consumed, one by one, without an object beyond the present moment; ever flying from the ennui of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality,… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
Fail, it's not in my dictionary. I've got a good dictionary up there and the words 'fail' and 'failure' have been ruled… — Percy Cerutty Copy Share Image
The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Our initial sensory data are always "first derivatives," statements about differences which exist among external objects or statements about changes which occur… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of… — Alexandre Kojeve Copy Share Image
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