Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience… — William James Copy Share Image
A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists more baffled… — William Broad Copy Share Image
As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have… — Douglas Fairbanks Copy Share Image
In the Western world, countries that were once the crucible of freedom are slipping remorselessly into a thinly disguised serfdom in which… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The gradual depletion of the ozone layer and the related "greenhouse effect" has now reached crisis proportions as a consequence of industrial… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Critics, often for good reason, are concerned that the Fed is wielding its vast powers in the interests of the banks and… — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. The law of contrasts is… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
I don't really agree that most academics frown when they hear Wikipedia. Most academics I find quite passionate about the concept of… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too… — Plato Copy Share Image
The studies I've seen about readability and legibility tend to focus on a specific set of metrics: size, not just the point… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
People are falling in love because a certain man has a certain type of nose. People are falling in love with fragments!… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Islamic ethics is based on 'limits and proportions,' which means that the answer to an offensive cartoon is a cartoon, not the… — Amir Taheri Copy Share Image
The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
You will see the mercy of God toward His creatures, how He has provided that which is required, in proper proportions, and… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
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What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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