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
Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
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
Anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we're always… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic… — Alfred North Whitehead 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
Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To call oneself a libertarian marxist today is not to look backwards but to be committed to the future. The libertarian marxist… — Daniel Guerin Copy Share Image
The vital consideration of incentives is almost systematically overlooked in the proposals of agitators for more and bigger government welfare schemes. We… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is an infinity of landscape here, caused by the purity of the atmosphere. It has been said that there is a… — Hans Heysen Copy Share Image
Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I… — P. G. Wodehouse 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
I have no problem with bands using participant financing schemes like Kickstarter and such. I've said many times that I think they're… — Steve Albini 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
I want to ensure and the Government wants to ensure that Australia is well prepared to tackle dangerous climate change with a… — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You may be trying to attain power in this world, then you start trying to attain power in that world. First you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than… — Butch Otter Copy Share Image
Loneliness is a long, unbearable pain…There was never a place for me in the scheme of things…I had become a living fantasy… — Dennis Nilsen Copy Share Image
We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth. As we learn how… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from… — William James Copy Share Image
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