What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Life that crawled, life that slunk and crept and never closed its eyes. Life that burrowed and scurried, and life so still… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Ours is not a dumb species. We have put a man on the moon. We have unlocked the secrets of the human… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
We deeply regret Sen. Frist's endorsement of an embryonic stem cell research policy that would turn living human beings into commodities for… — David Stevens Copy Share Image
He knows enough, the mariner, who knows Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil, What signs portend the storm: to… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
“Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another! Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
While my mother tried to stem my truancy, it would be a complete stranger - an Army Officer in the Special Forces… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In recent weeks we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them. This is deeply… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are flouted. Because… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
Every year there's an Oscar and Grammy and we celebrate those shows. We do the same in the U.S about sports schools… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or… — Brandi Chastain Copy Share Image
I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot,… — Jon Fishman Copy Share Image
Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible… — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
Looking at a first assembly is kind of like looking at an overgrown garden. You can't just wade in with a weed… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases. — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Of course now we know that couldn't be further from the truth, that the subjects that keep young people's options open and… — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
I believe that properly regulated research in stem-cell biotechnology will lead to many valuable improvements in medical treatment and that objections on… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens...The… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I feel like I have a group of friends, guys could be interchanged with my neighbors from back home. These guys are… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Science is not a boy's game, it's not a girl's game. It's everyone's game. It's about where we are and where we're… — Nichelle Nichols Copy Share Image
I think me getting into performance stems from my mother's inability to do those things. I guess you have these things you… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.' — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
The essence of seduction for me in a man, although it stems from his rough, almost rough-neck looks, still contains something of… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image