Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes,… — Michelle Chamuel Copy Share Image
It really really sunk into me when I went to Europe and they take rap so much more serious than we do… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
Chef and Ubuntu are often inseparable in serious server deployments, making mutual integration a must for our users. We're excited to offer… — Mark Shuttleworth Copy Share Image
For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Around New York City, samples collected at dozens of beaches or piers have detected the types of bacteria and other pollutants tied… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
The most fun to do in the weightlessness is going down the ladder headfirst, walking on the ceiling, chasing after M&M's that… — Marc Garneau Copy Share Image
John Barrymore was a serious actor who did a great deal of research for all his parts, until, I guess, he was… — John Carradine Copy Share Image
Chaga is significant in ethnomycology, forest ecology, and increasingly in pharmacognosy. Its long-term human use and cultural eastern European and Russian acceptance… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today. . . . Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms in the… — William H. Masters Copy Share Image
I just have this thing in my head that I want to do serious stories that are still just way too cute… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
My show 'The Big House' was picked up; they flew me to New York. I'm about to step on stage to announce… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
America is very conservative. It is not a very modern country. If you look at the population, they are very serious, very… — Luigi Colani Copy Share Image
Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
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A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
My goal is to maintain the international norm on banning chemical weapons. I want that enforcement to be real. I want it… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
Now, once again, we find ourselves facing rising gas prices, and the question is: This time, are we going to learn from… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Lion is a beautiful creature. It's a wonderful creature. But it's easy outrage. And I also believe that this kind of outrage… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We rush through our days in such stress and intensity, as if we were here to stay and the serious project of… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I knew what I wanted to do when I set out. I knew that I wanted to write a book that told… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
Conventions are convenient. It is inconvenient to say people are dead when they are alive, or alive when they have been buried,… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Whatever expectations I had for myself, none of them have come to pass. I grew up thinking I was going to be… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
