Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
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There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody can prepare on a physical level. It isn't possible to prepare for what is about to happen. The… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted. This is true in… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Bobby Fischer started off each game with a great advantage: after the opening he had used less time than his opponent and… — Edmar Mednis Copy Share Image
By enlivening this most basic level of life, Transcendental Meditation is that one simple procedure which can raise the life of every… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
What we can do is to shape how that process of global integration proceeds, so that it's increasing opportunity for ordinary people,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I wasn't in a position that some other memoirists are, dealing with families who fed them meth, or kidnapped them, or did… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it… — Giacomo Balla Copy Share Image
Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I personally know of scores of cases (of alcohoics) who were of the type with whom other methods had failed completely…because of… — William Duncan Silkworth Copy Share Image
He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
We're [humans] running great risks of doing things that will not be good for us. The cost can be very high indeed… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much… — Marjory Stephenson Copy Share Image
I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
We finally know where the red line for climate really is. After the rapid melt of arctic ice in the summer of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures,… — George R. Stewart Copy Share Image
To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't want to make vast generalizations about people who go into legal professions, but there are similarities in the barristers that… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
What is true, and I think that we can't deny it, is that some of the same concerns about globalization, about technology,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Through the process of specifically writing this memoir, there was so much reckoning that I had to do. It was very difficult.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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As soon as she was close, she whispered, "you've got to get out of here." "No, you've got to get out of… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one.… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
I'm enjoying [my career]. If anything I'm aware that the pressure of the first, I suppose, six or seven years I was… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
The art of invective resembles the art of boxing. Very few fights are won with the straight left. It is too obvious,… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image