Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale.… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
So what am I? I guess I would call myself a sober optimist...If you are not sober about the scale of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Northleaf is delighted to have been chosen to manage the new fund. We look forward to implementing the fund's long-term strategy of… — Jeff Pentland Copy Share Image
She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see the entire universe as a holographically interlinked network of energy and information, organically whole and self referential… — Ervin Laszlo Copy Share Image
I was also thinking about isolation on an evolutionary scale as well, like when you think of an island like Madagascar where… — Colin Stetson Copy Share Image
One must be wary of the view that these loose and diverse coalitions represent a new form of globalized participatory democracy. The… — Sylvia Ostry Copy Share Image
We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The bad news is that the movement toward the partnership side of the social scale (and it is always a matter of… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Politics creates an almost endless time horizon into the future. ... As governor I had the incredible luxury of being able to… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
Only losers and amateurs blame the cards. After all, cards don't care; they don't take sides, and they have no memory. They… — Lou Krieger Copy Share Image
As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I've done a couple of movies for scale, and it's the only way to get a lot of these independent movies made.… — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
At 42,000' in approximately level flight, a third cylinder was turned on. Acceleration was rapid and speed increased to .98 Mach. The… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common… — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
I think we live in an era of problems that, if you step back and look at them globally, can't be solved.… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter your title, people will not follow you if they don’t trust you. Whether you are just taking over a team… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe.… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
“Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use,… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
I know what it feels like to struggle with your weight, and it makes me understand why women get attached to numbers… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
You should diligently play scales and fingerpractices. There are many, however, who believe they'll achieve all, by practicing daily on technique for… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Elasticsearch is all about scale for us. At Foursquare, we handle tens of millions of searches across 50 million locations each day.… — Andrew Hogue Copy Share Image
There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I… — David Baker Copy Share Image
Part of being able to make great decisions around that and to really grow a business and scale a business, it also… — Ivanka Trump Copy Share Image
