Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
The demographic of our audience is young. It also contains a high proportion of black, Jewish and gay people, who have all… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from… — William McFee Copy Share Image
Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches,… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The larch... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio 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
The tax upon land values is the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
When you and I hurt deeply, what we really need is not an explanation from God but a revelation of God. We… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
Only a very small proportion of us take those excesses with us into later life. In the age before everyone had a… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort… — Anonymous 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
If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Now you say, alas! Christianity is hard; I grant it; but gainful and happy. I contemn the difficulty when I respect the… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
People ask why I do monochromatic clothes; the reason is because I'm thinking in proportion to the world. In this room, your… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the U.S. debt remains, as it has been since 1790, a war debt; the United States continues to spend more on… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom… The subjection of individuals… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel, or even why a few people are usually cruel… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Love is the invention of a few high cultures ... it is cultural artifact. To make love the requirement of a lifelong… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The very bulk of scientific publications is itself delusive. It is of very unequal value; a large proportion of it, possibly as… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent.… — Will Hutton Copy Share Image
Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of… — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Copy Share Image
I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If Turkey become a member of the EU, of course Turks would lose a part of this identity, just as Europe would… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't mess around with the men in the coven, especially my Shadowblades," she said with quiet finality. Flirting was one thing… — Diana Pharaoh Francis Copy Share Image
When excesses such as lax lending standards become widespread and persist for some time, people are lulled into a false sense of… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
