The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
The Psychological Recession is the cluster of feelings that the present is really scary and the future will likely be worse. It… — Judith M Bardwick Copy Share Image
The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years… — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of "environmental refugees", people who are forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Cloud computing is actually a spectrum of things complementing one another and building on a foundation of sharing. Inherent dualities in the… — Chris Howard Copy Share Image
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem. — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power. — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
One of the biggest changes in my lifetime, is the phenomenon of men wearing shorts. Men never wore shorts when I was… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific… — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
If you give up because you announce the phenomenon cannot be explained, you are missing out. — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
On reflection, some things do super well because they hit with the time. Some things do super well because they are able… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally… — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
My interaction with my followers on social media has become a phenomenon, and that's hardcore work every day! I have carpal tunnel… — John J. Legere Copy Share Image
Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred. — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small,… — Patrick Geddes Copy Share Image
The essence of the phenomenon of gambling is decision making. The act of making a decision consists of selecting one course of… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
There's this false notion that this is a regional phenomenon, when in fact every state in the union has hardcore rednecks. No… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
