In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
Sports don't matter in the grand scheme of things. But in the moment, when things are just right, they're the most important… — David Poole Copy Share Image
Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Being an # entrepreneur is not a get-rich scheme; it takes # strength of character to keep going. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
If the American public were accurately polled, I suspect the results would find Bonnie & Clyde, Bill Clinton, Ponzi Scheme scamster Bernie… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Generosity is self-existing openness, complete openness. You are no longer subject to cultivating your own scheme or project. And the best way… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
If the Liberal Left can create the common perception that success and failure are simple matters of 'fortune' or 'luck,' then it… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric:… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Science is a dynamic undertaking directed to lowering the degree of the empiricism involved in solving problems; or, if you prefer, science… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
So after a long time of utilizing the American propaganda machine, along with official statements of lies, distortion and falsehood, the focus… — Naji Sabri Copy Share Image
All subsidy measures, all schemes to redistribute income or to force Peter to support Paul, are one-eyed as well as shortsighted. They… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“Well, this is only a story, isn't it? I mean, our patrons, anyone who comes to this park, are they going to… — Pam Jones Copy Share Image
I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't take yourself too seriously. Like, yeah, I'm doin' all that, but still I don't feel like I've done anything, really.… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them. — William Osler Copy Share Image
To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to… — Gary Steiner Copy Share Image
People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
I’m going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread. — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Have no delusions of grandeur or plotting schemes. Have flawless confidence because you are worthy and sacred.” — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and… — D. J. MacHale Copy Share Image
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