When you think about a presidential candidate spending all of his or her time talking to that tiny, tiny fraction of us… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
I am a free man but only partially so relative to other people in society. Why do I say "partially free"? Because… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
Determinism is the thesis that is true at every moment that the way things then are determines a unique future, that only… — Peter van Inwagen Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and… — Willie Wilson Copy Share Image
Historians will look back on this era and how the Internet changed what we value, what we consider art, the way we… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Mike's (Tyson) punch is like an atomic bomb in that it is relative to nature. Both have no value unless you have… — Cus D'Amato Copy Share Image
Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the… — Jemima Khan Copy Share Image
“In this era, there are all kinds of prakrutis (personality of the relative self), so how can it work without adjusting?” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Our vulnerability [to ressentiment] is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
From the 9th to the 15th centuries, the area which is now modern Spain was home to the greatest peaceful agglomeration of… — Maya Beiser Copy Share Image
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common… — George Santayana Copy Share Image