Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
The class distinctions simply result from the different degrees of success with which men have availed themselves of the chances which were… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
If critics and competitors can't match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Fast, intuitive types are called… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
When I teach a class I often give the assignment: Photograph someone you love. I ask people to do this so they… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight-- isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Certainly every Christian ought to be praying and working to nullify the abominable abortion law. But as we work and pray, we… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The universe is like a river. The river keeps on flowing. It doesn't care whether you are happy or sad, good or… — Robert Anthony Copy Share Image
Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia.… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
In order to form for one's self a just notion of the operations which result in the production of thought, it is… — Pierre Jean George Cabanis Copy Share Image
it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
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God is also fully aware that the people you think are perfect are not. And yet we spend so much time and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
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When I photograph, I do not think much. If you looked at my contacts you would ask yourself: "What is this guy… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
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My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
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When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Chess computers do not sweat during time pressure and commit costly blunders. Furthermore, the strength of these programs (over and above their… — Ira Carmen Copy Share Image
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
But housekeeping is fun. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work. You may work all… — Gladys Taber Copy Share Image
Some of the old diseases that we think are gone - case in point, measles - are back, now that somebody has… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm... The next… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The Democrats are not seeking reelection on anything good. And everything bad that's happening is the result of Democrats having won elections… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
No one particular religion has been able to secure the exclusive rights for the power of prayer. No matter who you are,… — Masaru Emoto Copy Share Image
Happiness arises as a result of different causes and conditions. If you harm someone out of anger, you may feel some superficial… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The question about the Salafi is an important question as I say in Arab Awakening, and have often repeated since. I am… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Go to a playground: Little girls get called 'bossy' all the time, a word that's almost never used for boys. And that… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Within each of us there is an Owl, a Rabbit, and Eeyore, and a Pooh. For too long, we have chosen the… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
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