But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
It’s not about the budget; it’s about the power...So will the attack on unions succeed? I don’t know. But anyone who cares… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
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I have been privileged to grow up retaining the love of good journalism, the craft, while learning its business: the dollars and… — Lachlan Murdoch Copy Share Image
Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot,… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Curating isn't just a matter of taste. It involves building up real knowledge of the items in your care. As the world… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is,… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack… — Alcibiades Copy Share Image
Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
In those countries where income taxes are lower than in the United States, the ability to defer the payment of U.S. tax… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The mantras, however, are mysterious and each word is profound in meaning. When they are transliterated into Chinese, the original meanings are… — Kukai Copy Share Image
It is really refreshing to hear a big band that has the ability to execute ensemble passages with swing and precision while… — John Patitucci Copy Share Image
As a city powered by our country's knowledge economy, Toronto will continue to benefit from developing, attracting and retaining the world's most… — Peter Van Loan Copy Share Image
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asanas each time with a fresh mind and with a… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
We must remind our politicians that we expect them to speak honestly and to be concerned about real issues, and not simply… — Davis McCaughey Copy Share Image
Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
Golfers who play a lot of courses often encounter short ledges or retaining walls, and I always had fun hopping down from… — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
We have the knowledge, resources, and capabilities to make global capitalism work in a more inclusive and socially responsible manner while retaining… — John Dunning Copy Share Image
[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
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I believe we should continue to have a partnership of national states each retaining the right to protect its vital interests, but… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I have tried to be more flexible, but I always end up feeling more uncomfortable. Retaining a sense of control is really… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
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I believe that DVD is that which gives some hope to retaining some content in movies that will appeal to an older… — Warren Beatty Copy Share Image
Retaining 'Monday Night Football' simply did not make smart financial sense for ABC. We could not reconcile the fees against the revenue.… — George Bodenheimer Copy Share Image
The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Hemingway, damn his soul, makes everything he writes terrifically exciting (and incidentally makes all us second-raters seem positively adolescent) by the seemingly… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
Every one of the geezers who continues to play a leadership role has one quality of overriding importance: neotony. The dictionary definition… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
The most effective way to close down the human mind and to manipulate its sense of self is to program into it… — David Icke Copy Share Image
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The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Empires are synonymous with centralized if occasionally schismatized hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
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The handling of our forests as a continuous, renewable resource means permanent employment and stability to our country life. The forests are… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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