I think the state should be as small as possible and only there to pick up where people need help, such as… — Heidi Allen Copy Share Image
The most potentially transformative impact of social media is its ability to encourage brands to marry profit and purpose. The reason brands… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If fertility drops much below 2.1 babies per woman, the population will shrink unless it is offset by higher immigration. For this… — Greg Ip Copy Share Image
I couldn‘t make sense of the mess in my head. Diego was dead, and that was the main thing, the devastating thing.… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Why did I become a Canadian citizen? Not because I was rejecting being a U.S. citizen. At the time when I became… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I feel history is more of a story than a lesson. I know this idea of presentism: this idea of constantly evoking… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
Each of is an arm of Kannon, enabling Kannon to do her work. Like her, we're also overwhelmed, but when we reallize… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
(On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve —… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
I don't think my father noticed that he had daughters. I think, you know, part of the damage of the childhood was,… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Free speech is important whether you like what's being said or not. The reason why it's so important is that the entire… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
God says The reason some people have turned against you & walked away from you without reason has nothing to do with… — Alena Waldrep Copy Share Image
Democracy requires you to learn how to lose as well as how to exercise power when you win. And that requires restraint… — David Frum Copy Share Image
The German physicists knew at least so much about the manufacture and construction of atomic bombs that it was clear to them… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
If you are a parent, if you are an educator, there are very many good and powerful reasons to take children onto… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's… — Lalo Schifrin Copy Share Image
Condemn no man for not thinking as you think. Let every one enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself.… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
University, as institutions, pre-date the information economy by many centuries and are not for-profit cultural entities, whose reason of existence (purportedly) is… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Take a look at the bombing of Serbia in 1999. The US was quite open about the reasons for the bombing. A… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe.… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pagan philosophers set up reason as the sole guide of life, of wisdom and conduct; but Christian philosophy demands of us that… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It feels blessed to me. Because I go to comic cons, and people come up and they say, 'You're the reason I… — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
I do like the idea of the novel of repressed college students being a contemporary novel of courtship! I guess what I… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
It used to be that you would go into a writing program and what you would learn was how to write a… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
The first and most common reason for not being a fluent reader is that the child does not yet know how to… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
How can I ever trust you? (Acheron) You can’t. But I have lived inside your memories for the last three years. I… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the negative effect of additional government intervention.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
We think of music as this substance that flows - you turn on the tap, and there it is, streaming off your… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
There is no reason why a guitar player makes the guitar-playing faces. It doesn't help you play guitar. You've not improved your… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
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