Man is a megalomaniac among animals-if he sees mountains he will try to imitate them by pyramids, and if he sees some… — Jacques Loeb Copy Share Image
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I have this desire to just while away weeks, months and years. It took me two years to make this record but… — Gotye Copy Share Image
The a priori method is distinguished for its comfortable conclusions. It is the nature of the process to adopt whatever belief weare… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
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My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
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One thing I like about writing is that it provides such a wonderful opportunity for confidential chats with readers. In the privacy… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
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[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal… — Liza Mundy Copy Share Image
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'Noah' doesn't merely get the story wrong; like all Biblical adaptations, it's bound to do that (although some aspects of the film… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If getting a contract was relatively straightforward, writing fiction was far harder than I could have imagined, and there were moments during… — Saul David Copy Share Image
The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour,… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
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When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs need to start building today. The barrier to entry in tech is low, so start designing, start coding it, launch it,… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
Another thing that makes the process different is we go in there and are completely immersed in [that] world for however many… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
I am involved in every step of the process [musicmaking]. Whether it is the production or the mixing or the visuals and… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person's entire processes. And these Taliban -… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
There is no one-size-fits-all process. It differs from character to character and priority to priority. Every project has a different priority, and… — Vikrant Massey Copy Share Image
With non-professionals, there's a lot of time you have to allocate to getting what you want with them, but also you cast… — Charles Burnett Copy Share Image
I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you.… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
To be fair, if we are having a mass extinction, we're in the early stages of it. I think it's knowing facts… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Our findings do not represent a quick fix, or the next fashion statement in a long string of management fads, or the… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Pharmacogenomics holds great promise to shed scientific light on the often risky and costly process of drug development, and to provide greater… — Mark McClellan Copy Share Image
The more you see, especially being young, the more you see the past, the more you can draw upon that and the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North… — Peter York Copy Share Image
If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical… — Robert Linssen Copy Share Image
While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
There are some die-hard male chauvinist pigs and there are some Neanderthal women who are threatened by equality - but the great… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Christians can not truly evangelize unless they are prepared to be evangelized in the process. In sharing the good news, people are… — Eddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect… — Johannes Grenzfurthner Copy Share Image