[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the court is heading to a doctrine of 'separation of campaign and state.' This doctrine, like separation of church and state… — Bradley A. Smith Copy Share Image
Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way… — John Collison Copy Share Image
It's not uncommon to hear people say that the re-entry into their lives is very hard. A lot of actors say that… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
The American taxing structure, the purpose of which was to serve the people, began instead to serve the insatiable appetite of government.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The volumes, the surfaces, the lines-in one word, the structures that build a tectonic construction-do not represent the whole picture: there is… — Emile Argand Copy Share Image
Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure. — Taylor Hawkins Copy Share Image
Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything. — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Having a love ethic, as opposed to simply being in love, or having a lover, means love is the way you actively… — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
The question of how to structure our nation's financial system arose in the early years of the republic. — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
Among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other, and… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I think, in our modern cities, there are a lot of boxes; there are a lot of straight lines. They often deal… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
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