Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down… — Joseph Furphy Copy Share Image
We are forever looking outside ourselves, seeking approval and striving to impress others. But living to please others is a poor substitute… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
I was reading Emily Dickinson and Edwin Arlington Robinson, but these weren't the poets that influenced me. I think Gwendolyn Brooks influenced… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more… — Russel Honore Copy Share Image
Mostly out of step, young people, especially poor minorities and low-income whites, are increasingly inscribed within a machinery of dead knowledge, social… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
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The availability of downloads is fantastic, but you don't know which musicians are playing on the songs anymore. It's kind of making… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
Liberals correctly perceive the Reagan record as their most dangerous enemy. Why? Because what happened during the 1980s - prosperity at home… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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There's another totally fraudulent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Al Gore hadn't done anything but make a movie that itself was… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If the fact that people make poor decisions is reason enough for the government to second-guess their decisions about dangerous activities such… — Jacob Sullum Copy Share Image
Anybody can see that the little money you get is half-wasted, because you cannot spend it to advantage. The worst food comes… — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
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She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
In Shanghai, I saw great contrasts. On one street there would be impressive shops selling copies of the latest word in glamorous… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. Right now we [americans]… — Arthur C. Brooks Copy Share Image
Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
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In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or… — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
Fill your life with service to others. As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven’s children, Satan’s temptations… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
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In some instances even certain social services that normally were supplied, or pre-empted by the state. Take the United States, the [Ronald]… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
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