As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I have often lost whole days jumping from one Wikipedia article after another in an attempt to understand the full scope of… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed,… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Keep your rivers flowing as they will, and you will continue to know the most important of all freedoms-the boundless scope of… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
As evangelical Christians, we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, Microsoft has won by making big, bold bets. I believe that now is not the time to scale back… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with "empathy" for certain groups,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We also need to encourage Americans to become more fiscally responsible themselves. We can do this by redesigning our tax system into… — Edwin Feulner Copy Share Image
What novel - or what else in the world - can have the epic scope of a photograph album? May our Father… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R.… — Randall Balmer Copy Share Image
Despite my reservations, I do think there is scope for the Premier League to consider regionalised academies - but only if the… — David James Copy Share Image
In terms of wilderness preservation, Alaska is the last frontier. This time, given one great final chance, let us strive to do… — Mo Udall Copy Share Image
Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
An epic subject requires a writer of epic skill and scope, and we have a perfect pairing in Cleopatra and Stacy Schiff.… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue.… — George Will Copy Share Image
Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
The scope of art is practically boundless; it does not begin and end with the painting of pictures and the modeling of… — Lewis Foreman Day Copy Share Image
Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human rights without responsibility, without a sense of decency, a sense of compassion, is not good enough for a society to flourish...… — Tu Weiming Copy Share Image
If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
This scripture [Romans 13:1-6] is wrested from the scope of God's Spirit, and the nature of the place, and cannot truly be… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
To achieve the highest accomplishments within the scope of our capabilities in all walks of life we must constantly strive to acquire… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope… — Tim Holden Copy Share Image
I want to be in control of drafting at least 80% the timing and cohesiveness of character and narrative. I want to… — Saschka Unseld Copy Share Image
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