Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In some central and important cases, ... the existence of specific power relations in the society will produce an appearance of a… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that defines productivity and creativity as where corporations,… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
Not using social networks responsibly can very easily ruin lives, destroy marriages, lead to sin, cause untold suffering & pain. It sometimes… — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
More than anything in this world, I wish I had been born rich. It would have made up for everything. I'd still… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
It's not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures- it's inevitable. But unless the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's really the story of a young woman, or two women, growing up in Naples in a poor neighborhood. The way that… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In my work, I am not attempting to predict the future. I am only pointing out what is possible with the intelligent… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation-th… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
It’s one thing if you are a luxury brand and have been around for 60 years and can weather the retail storm… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
That's what running does to lives. It's not just exercise. It's not just achievement. It's a daily discipline that has nothing to… — Martin Dugard Copy Share Image
.. it makes sense that introverts are uniquely good at leading intiative-takers. Because of their inclination to listen to others and lack… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Happiness is a social creature. If you try to pursue it in a vacuum, it's very difficult to sustain it. But as… — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
Was she terrifyingly beautiful? Was she so ignorant she didn't deserve the truth? Was she also a liar and thus it was… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country.… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I want to use film to tell stories that need to be told to spark discussions that will lead to change. I… — Jamie Hector Copy Share Image
Dr. Ambrose himself told Mark Nechtr...that the problem with young people, starting sometime in about the 1960s, is that they tend to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Because orgasmic sex would lead to women's autonomy, knowing who you are and what we want: Women are not going to follow… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Anything that really frightens you may contain a clue to enlightenment. It may indicate to you how deeply you are attached to… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
But the 20th century suffered "two" ideologies that led to genocides. The other one, Marxism, had no use for race, didn't believe… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
For me, 'The Social Network' isn't about Facebook. It certainly isn't about how people use it. It's about a flawed character and… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself. He was also… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“There are times when I'm alone and I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The breakup of Bell laid the foundation for every important communications revolution since the 1980s onward. There was no way of knowing… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image