We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A.… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
As matters now stand, the veto seems inappropriate, given the absence of any deep ideological split between major states, and definitely constrains… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
My philosophy has always remained the same, it's about creating calm balanced environments based on Eastern cultures, ie order and creation of… — Kelly Hoppen Copy Share Image
Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In order to expand the gaming population, it is taken for granted that we need to offer games to satisfy veteran gamers.… — Satoru Iwata Copy Share Image
As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
We should not rule out the possibility that Trump's diplomacy could deescalate Middle East strife and international tensions, give the US a… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
You need to be able to nurture yourself in order to be a good mother, good at your job, good at servicing… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said, a real… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
“The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior--benefits that extended to every area of life. It… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If I were to be super critical, I would say Formula One is too tactical and not strategic enough. And that brings… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
This is a wrong course the Chinese comrades are trying to lead us on to, it is an opportunist road of vacillation… — Enver Hoxha Copy Share Image
In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For some people, it's very easy to be spontaneous and they can pour out the most wonderful stuff. But it's really hard… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations.… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Women lead in ways different from men's. Men, I think, have been programmed to give orders. Women have been programmed to motivate… — Muriel Fox Copy Share Image
As the artist, you have to live in order to experience life to put that out there, and when you are successful… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The… — Ivy Lee Copy Share Image
[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
The state says: "Well, in order for it to be legitimate civil disobedience, you have to follow these rules." They put us… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Most of the ethical dilemmas that I have faced have all been in the category of, you know, I know something and… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Physiology, in its analysis of the physiological functions of the sense organs, must use the results of subjective observation of sensations; and… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
In order for the inner man to be strengthened with power through the Holy Spirit, the children of God must discharge their… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
"There is one basis of science," says Descartes, "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The satisfaction of physical needs is indeed the indispensable pre-condition of a satisfactory existence, but in itself it is not enough. In… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If this "critical openminded attitude" ... is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
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