You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is much more difficult to get implemented politically what might be desirable economically. Even if you came out with an economic… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Prayer is far-reaching in its influence and worldwide in its effects. It affects all men, affects them everywhere, and affects them in… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
I was sort of trained in drama. I went to theater school. I started on the stage. Comedy is absolutely an essential… — Alex O'Loughlin Copy Share Image
I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying.… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Possibly the tragedy of the bicycle is that it was invented too close in time to the car. In the historical scheme,… — Richard Ballantine Copy Share Image
The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
The animal world being altogether external to the scheme of redemption, was regarded as beyond the range of duty, and the belief… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Cast down, O Lord, all the forces of cruelty and wrong. Defeat all selfish and worldly-minded schemes, and prosper all that is… — John Baillie Copy Share Image
Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance - a topic we should never discuss: the very name… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
He's got lots of money and clearly has grandiose schemes, seeing himself as an important global player. There is a reality to… — Michael Shifter Copy Share Image
If we were left to ourselves with the task of taking the gospel to the world, we would immediately begin planning innovative… — David Platt Copy Share Image
The only reason there is a crisis about Social Security in the US and pensions in Europe and Japan is that you… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society,… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
If I do manage to come up with a scheme [to naming], however, I stick to it, which is why my cats… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
This is the meanest thing anyone’s ever done to me,” I said, through my tear-clogged throat. “I want you to know that.”… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of love, nut… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Not a step can we take in any direction without perceiving the most extraordinary traces of design; and the skill everywhere conspicuous… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
In this game, you have to think about making plays, you can't worry about making mistakes. At times, a guy will get… — Mike Scioscia Copy Share Image
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