Violence appears to be most commonly a result of threatened egotism -- that is, highly favorable views of self that are disputed… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
The effect of the people's agreeing that there must be central planning, without agreeing on the ends, will be rather as if… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is… — James Salter Copy Share Image
After a harassing warfare, prolonged by the nature of the country and by the difficulty of procuring subsistence, the Indians were entirely… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate,… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The attempt to be an ideal parent, that is, to behave correctly toward the child, to raise her correctly, not to give… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
It is so true that in liquid modernity freedom was, so to speak, let off the leash, and for a quite a… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Repetition and ritual and their good results come in many forms: changing the oil filter, wiping noses, going to meetings, picking up… — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
I don't care if they're licensed legal firearms, people who are not highly trained putting guns in their hands is a recipe… — Garry McCarthy Copy Share Image
The second edition of There Is a Cure for Diabetes is groundbreaking. Dr. Gabriel Cousens gets impressive results that speak for themselves.… — Terry Shintani Copy Share Image
The White House comes out and says it's going to do a major study of the effects on preschool-age children using Ritalin,… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
Today I will once more be a prophet. If the international Jewish financiers, inside and outside Europe, succeed in plunging the nations… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
If something doesn't turn out as planned, you will ask yourself, 'How did I create that? What was I thinking? What were… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Pierre Curie voluntarily exposed his arm to the action of radium for several hours. This resulted in damage resembling a burn that… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
God is not justice. Justice is in his nature, but love is predominant. People attach such importance to actions and their results.… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Conclusions I. A curve has been found representing the frequency distribution of standard deviations of samples drawn from a normal population. II.… — William Sealy Gosset Copy Share Image
Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know of nothing else in medicine that can come close to what a plant-based diet can do. In theory, if everyone… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
If the way which I have pointed out as leading to this result (i.e., power over the emotions by which the wise… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake.… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Because of the war on drugs, pain patients are treated with skepticism and pain doctors live in fear of being prosecuted for… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
What is surprising is that almost all the trends that developed within the sciences, Aristotelianism and an extreme Platonism included, produced results,… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Marketing automation is the technology that propels your business into a new era of relationship based marketing with quantifiable results. When powerful… — Jon Miller Copy Share Image
Beyond the immediate risks to her health and the health of her baby, when a woman chooses c-section, she decreases the chance… — Marsden Wagner Copy Share Image
Along the way, female filmmakers will have the feeling that they're not good enough. And that's really just a result of being… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow… — George Will Copy Share Image
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
