Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
California's Proposition 37, which would require that genetically modified (G.M.) foods carry a label, has the potential to do just that -… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Mao Zedong Thought was not created by Comrade Mao alone - other revolutionaries of the older generation played a part in forming… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The dissemination of the individual's opinions on matters of public interest is for us, in the historic words of the Declaration of… — John Marshall Harlan II Copy Share Image
People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
It's a simple proposition to us: Everyone is entitled to adequate medical health care. If you call that a 'redistribution of income'… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
There will be a debate on Firing Line between Buckley and Gore Vidal on the proposition: "This nation cannot survive as long… — M. Stanton Evans Copy Share Image
Specifically in reference to Iran, Donald Trump will not be able to renegotiate the nuclear arms pact. His attempt to do so… — Lawrence Davidson Copy Share Image
Despite all the wonderful advances that have been made, it's still dangerous for an actor to talk about that in our extremely… — Richard Chamberlain Copy Share Image
We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. We wouldn't touch rock if we were perfectly self-controlled.… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
As a general proposition, campaigns do not linger on the vice presidential nominee. When they have, it's always meant very bad news… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
There are just four kinds of bets. There are good bets, bad bets, bets that you win, and bets that you lose.… — Larry Hite Copy Share Image
The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality - to talk about reality, to go… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is--to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories--a mysterious contraption that… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
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