The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the most useful parts of my education as a writer was the practice of reading a writer straight through -… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Every morning, read seriously and reverently a portion of the Holy Scriptures, and acquaint yourselves with the history and doctrine thereof. It… — Matthew Hale Copy Share Image
In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best.… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The real does not die, the unreal never lived. Set your mind right and all will be right. When you know that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination,… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Marylanders have led the nation in adopting a balanced approach to revenues and investments because we know that in order to maintain… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
People do not spring forth out of the blue, fully formed – they become themselves slowly, day by day, starting from babyhood.… — Lois Duncan Copy Share Image
I don't believe anybody has a right to own any kind of a firearm. I believe in order to obtain a permit… — John Silber Copy Share Image
Intelligent beings from other planets regularly visit our world in an effort to enter into contact with us. NASA and the American… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
So capital is in fact borderless; that's the problem. On the other hand capital has to keep borders alive in order for… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's never the practice to shoot the scenes in the proper order. Sometimes you shoot the final scenes of a film before… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The wise men of antiquity, when they wished to make the whole world peaceful and happy, first put their own States into… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Virtue is the panacea for both body and mind. The virtuous person can be both healthy and happy. How is virtue to… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There are basically two approaches to solving the problem of terrorism. One is that you understand the mind of the terrorist in… — Jude Wanniski Copy Share Image
Pennsylvania is facing challenging economic times, a multi-billion dollar budget deficit, and negative cash flow projections. My Budget Deficit and Fiscal Stabilization… — Tom Wolf Copy Share Image
One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
It's funny; it's a real balancing act. In TV, everybody's talking about authenticity. In order to make 'Dirty Jobs' authentic, I really… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
I've always been very chauvinistic, even in my boy-obsessed days. But I was always a gentleman. I alwaysd treated my boys like… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setback. They are champions because they've been hurt. Their experience moved… — Bob Richards Copy Share Image
My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image