Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is… — Leslie Orgel Copy Share Image
No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects"… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses. — Horace Copy Share Image
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I don't think that we're limiting talent. I think if I could reverse the clock a little bit, there would have been… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the… — Jeff Zucker Copy Share Image
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was teaching live drawing in a community college and students started zoning in on the face and spending a couple of… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
There can't be reverse racism against a group that is not at a disadvantage. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
I love sea salt spray but I hate being salty from the ocean, so I'll always shower after surfing, shampoo and condition… — Laura Enever Copy Share Image
You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development--the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We have to have structural entitlement reform, major spending cuts and not tax increase-retardants on economic growth to reverse our current course… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The… — Marta Andreasen Copy Share Image
Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial… — Pat Brown Copy Share Image
