Every day, families in Africa go without food and water, never knowing when their next meal might be; but we can change… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
In the complex course of its evolution, life exhibits a remarkable contrast to the tendency expressed in the Second Law to Thermodynamics.… — J. H. Rush Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
When I went to first grade and the other children said that their fathers were farmers, I simply didn't believe them. I… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The object of a dialogical-liberterian action is not to 'dislodge' the oppressed from a mythological reality in order to 'bind' them to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Kafka's writings often display an insidious power to describe a wholly secular and "factical" world in which the eerie or "unheimlich" elements… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“However, for the man who studies to gain insight , books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In ascending order the qualities of Patriotism are: 1. To work, fight, or die for your own survival. 2. To work, fight,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Evolution goes beyond what went before, but because it must embrace what went before, then its very nature is to transcend and… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
But we're not God. We're humans, and at the end of the day we have to march to the beat of a… — Ronald Perelman Copy Share Image
This religion teaches that 6,000 years ago God made the first man out of dust - not even mud - and the… — Charles Chilton Moore Copy Share Image
I'd done all the things I thought a person had to do in order to be successful and fulfilled, like getting a… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
For the emergent process, as noted by the geneticist Theodore Dobzhansky, is neither random nor determined but creative. Just as in human… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Movies don't sit in the theaters for an entire summer like they did in 1982. Now you've got a two- or three-week… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If other things must be destroyed in order for fire to exist, that's all right with fire. As far as fire is… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There are some people who, in order not to pray use as an excuse the fact that life is so hectic that… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the… — Nancy Spero Copy Share Image
Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Within the human consciousness is the unique ability to perceive the transparency between absolute, permanent relationships, contained in the insubstantial forms of… — Robert Lawlor Copy Share Image
It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability… — Horace Copy Share Image
One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening -… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
As Kylie buried her head on the camp leader's shoulder, she heard Burnett scold, "I thought I told you to wait at… — C.C. Hunter Copy Share Image
The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
So long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I see the concepts spatially in my mind. I see the boxes and corrals and grids into which administrative systems require people,… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
A great many things determine how people live, and money is not at the top of the list. Choices are always available.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to derive a permanent future income from it… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image