We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as… — J. D. Daniels Copy Share Image
During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension… — Carl Mydans Copy Share Image
“The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
The preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people, and we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences. — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
The first story I wrote was "Catface" which was later selected for The O. Henry Collection, so that gave me some confidence… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
“It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly.… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It cannot be too strongly asserted that the insistence on blind, unreasoning faith is due mainly to the maintenance of a subject-matter… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
