Amos Vogel was a mentor, a guiding light for me. In his presence, you always rose. But his importance to me is… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Goals should be difficult to achieve because those achieved with little effort are seldom appreciated, give little personal satisfaction, and are often… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that the significance of 9/11 cannot be underestimated. It forces us to think in new ways about strategy,… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Lying is a false significance of speech, with a will to deceive, which cannot be cured but by shame and reason; it… — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Things only 'show up' for us as they do, as Heidegger would put, in and through practical engagements with the world that… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
A multidisciplinary study group ... estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
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The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“It’s strange that Christians so rarely talk about failure when we claim to follow a guy whose three-year ministry was cut short… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religion is but a desperate attempt to find an escape from the truly dreadful situation in which we find ourselves. Here we… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
In all the thrashing about that results from our dwindling gold reserves, it's about time that this country and other countries get… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in just about everything. Always… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Ultimately, of what possible social significance is it if a person likes to masturbate over a shoe? It may even be non-consensual,… — Gayle Rubin Copy Share Image
I am convinced that if the market system were the result of deliberate human design, and if the people guided by the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Perhaps Eurydice wants to remain marginal, a shade insubstantial… the mute waste in a limbo without light and without depth are a… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be… — William Braxton Irvine Copy Share Image
“Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant… — John Brockman Copy Share Image
I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale: to an observer in the Andromeda nebula, the sign… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance,… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The Far East is of particular significance for us in terms of this region's priority development. Over the last few years, let… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
This is the best message that I have been responsibly for it. This will help you, A, find your identity. Because you… — Paula White Copy Share Image
If you stop your creative process every time you think you need to cheer yourself up, or rid yourself of emotional conflicts,… — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
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