Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The truth was that nature had endowed them with a larger share of brains than was common in their circle, and had… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Even present-day fuels possess more than enough energy, if only we knew how to release and use it. Just as molecular energy… — P. E. Cleator Copy Share Image
In the Augustan age ... poetry was ... the sister of architecture; with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“It takes three or four years before the present day sinks in to you as a novelist. It has not just to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I'm halfway through a novel set in two time frames - Austin in the 1960's and Alpine (Texas) in present day. It… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
“We have a long distance to travel,' said the Angel of Death to our friend Gil, as soon as they had left… — Pedro Antonio de Alarcón Copy Share Image
THE PATH IS exceedingly vast. From ancient times to the present day, even the greatest sages were unable to perceive and comprehend… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“A poet's marriage to his time is a forced marriage. A marriage of which - as of any suffered violence - he… — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
“History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions;… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“It seems, however, to be otherwise with stronger and livelier thinkers who are still eager for life. In that they side against… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In the mid 1980's I was asked by an american legal institution known as the Christic Legal Institute to compile a comic… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“When I look at this age with the eye of a distant future, I find nothing so remarkable in the man of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We call the heroes of the past heroes of production.We feel entitled to call the present day magazine heroes 'idols ofconsumption'.Indeed, almosteveryoneofthem… — Leo Lowenthal Copy Share Image
Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality,… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“Going by current developments, India is sure to catch up - not in 50, but in another 20 years - with America...… — Dr Deepak Hiwale, aka 'Dr Dee Copy Share Image
“early Sanskrit sources (Atharvaveda Parisista) and in Gupta period inscriptions, the country is referred to as Nepala. The Newars of present day… — Johnson C. Philip Copy Share Image
“There can be no doubt that the existing Fauna and Flora is but the last term of a long series of equally… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels… — Fabian Perez Copy Share Image
Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I then asked myself how could I and after reviewing the various methods I have felt that at the present day we… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
“You’ll never get anywhere with your head in the clouds if you don’t turn those dreams into present-day forward motion. Show gratitude… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
And the issue is never the merits of the evidence but always the jealous rivalry of the contestants to see which would… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
'The Last Patriot' is set in the present day but is based upon the premise that the Prophet Mohammed had a final… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Photography, of course, is the perfect medium for the investigation. It can reveal the truth of present day specifics and particularities, while… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
We, the present-day political leaders, are called upon to take responsibility for making joint decisions upon which the prosperity of future generations… — Tomislav Nikolic Copy Share Image
Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“She had agreed to marry him without realizing that marriage brought a kind a simple pleasure, a pleasure in the continued company… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to… — Olympia Brown Copy Share Image
Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
