Nearly everybody nowadays accepts the 'causal completeness of physics' - every physical event (or at least its probability) has a full physical… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
You'll have to have the governments sell off all of their public domains; sell off their railroads, sell off their public land.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
One of the issues the Democrats have to be clear on is the given population distribution across the country. We have to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The reason they don't make movies for adults and for people which are the largest bulge of the population is because they… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Between 1995 and 2005, the prison population grew by 30 percent, meaning an additional half million criminals were behind bars, rather than… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Costa Rica remains peacefully and firmly committed to the well- being and safety of our population. We promote a model of development… — Laura Chinchilla Copy Share Image
There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The extremely low respect Congress enjoys among the population indicates that the citizens understand broadly what's going on. But the lack of… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
A tiny portion of the population controls the lions share of the wealth and most of the command positions of state, manufacturing,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Insect resistance to a pesticide was first reported in 1947 for the Housefly (Musca domestica) with respect to DDT. Since then resistance… — Francisco J. Ayala Copy Share Image
The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas - the backbone of the Industrial Revolution - will be a distant memory by 2050.… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date.… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The world saw and understood that, when it comes to the normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations, they have to deal not just… — Serzh Sargsyan Copy Share Image
The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
A city like Bombay, like New York, that is a recent creation on the planet and does not have a substantial indigenous… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share Image
The U.S. and, to a certain extent, countries in Europe as well, have experienced growing inequality within their population for decades -… — Nicholas Bloom Copy Share Image
There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of… — Zakaria Tamer Copy Share Image
The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise… — Thomas Lickona Copy Share Image
One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You've got a huge American population, you've got a small, small, small subset that is radicalized, and you have an even smaller… — Michael Leiter Copy Share Image
Germany suffered most as a consequence of this Peace Treaty and the general insecurity which was bound to arise from it. The… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Post-genocide Rwanda has managed to implement a good universal health insurance scheme that covers a large proportion of the population. This came… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
A huge part of the American trans population that's often overlooked are trans teenagers. Many of them are homeless, and those are… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
What works for Sweden wouldn't work for France or Germany or Italy. In a small state, you can reach outside for many… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Maybe we need to start with the rethinking of what is "west" and what is "non-west." It seems to me that there… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think the best way to control a population is to urbanize and to educate women. We have seen historically in many,… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
