Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
many people choose, early on, their own truths from the large smorgasbord available. And once they've chosen them, for good reason or… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
I'm post-cynical on this stuff. I look at the El Salvador model as the glory days: Why don't we just fund the… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
I have no real desire to play Test cricket, and the reason I lost this desire was because I was not selected… — Shahid Afridi Copy Share Image
It's not always the case that things will fall into your lap or that life will be great, but it's all about… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
Seeing your mother naked is not something you easily recover from. Seeing your mother naked and jumping from one side of a… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
I'd like to have a vote on it at the November [owners'] meetings. There's no reason why we can't announce who we… — Bob DuPuy Copy Share Image
I think there's a reason to go off and do something and experiment - splinter off and do something different. It keeps… — Christine McVie Copy Share Image
If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization,… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
I felt I had to take the Celtic opportunity. You quickly learn that any managerial vacancy attracts up to 60 or 70… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
Once again your mind explodes with a searing pain. A floodgate of memories bursts wide. Yet it is her face that keeps… — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
Our bishops storehouses are not intended to stock enough commodities to care for all the members of the Church. Storehouses are only… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were… — Dwight Longenecker Copy Share Image
I see negotiations as an honest attempt to reach a deal that's great for everyone at the table. But sometimes, for whatever… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
The reason I can give wonder is that I feel wonder about the world: the stars, a tree, my body - everything. — Doug Henning Copy Share Image
Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
Satisfied is a word I use only in reference to my country, and I'll never be satisfied for my country. For this… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
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