Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree,… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
There are various causes for the generation of force: a tensed spring, an air current, a falling mass of water, fire burning… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
“We were talking nonsense, and I said something silly about unrequited love, and he became very serious, and he stopped me, and… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members. — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
Each powerful player, or coalition of players, will make concessions in areas where it has relatively less at stake in exchange for… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“The reciprocity of respect accrues to us not only from those we respect but also from others who perceive that we respect… — Vincent Okay Nwachukwu Copy Share Image
But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too.… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Neuroscientists talk a lot about brain circuits. In fact, the word 'circuit' is probably misleading. We do not know where most circuits… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
There is a strong reciprocal relationship whereby our more ambitious design visions encourage the continuing development of the new digital technologies and… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America; for better and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'.… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
