The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit,… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
It is easy to rationalize that we don't have time to exercise. Not so. Ultimately, our improved health through exercise will provide… — Joe J. Christensen Copy Share Image
Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
With One Spirit Medicine , you will discover how to dance between the visible, physical world of the senses and everyday tasks,… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
The discovery of the habit loop is important because it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision,… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities,… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
You plant a garden one flower at a time. ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
Send the harmony of a Great Desire vibrating through every fiber of your being. Pray for a task that will call forth… — Thomas Dreier Copy Share Image
He was a superb military officer but he was also an extraordinarily gifted politician. That he was an unusually open, honest and… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language,… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Everybody has to share something. This is one of the most important laws of the human condition, is the necessity to share.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
One is never just a teacher: One is always - even if not consciously - an advocate of a point of view,… — Robert Audi Copy Share Image
Living becomes a glorious experience only when it is sweetened by tolerance and love. Willingness to compromise with others ways of living… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The great soul is the person who has taken on the task of change. If he or she is able to transcend… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
There just isn't enough time for everything on our 'to do' list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The hugely popular Windows 95 operating system revolutionized the software world thanks to its capability of accomplishing the seemingly impossible task of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it… — Jean Froissart Copy Share Image
I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
There's nothing sweeter than a real friend: Not only is he prompt to lend— An angler delicate, he fishes The very deepest… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to deny the… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Useful knowledge, practical kindness, and beneficent laws -- these are not the Gospel; but, like philosophy, they are, or may be, its… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Some will remember an image of a fire or story or rescue. Some will carry memories of a face and a voice… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The history of God's people is not a record of God searching for courageous men and women who could handle the task,… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try to use that period for the purpose of transforming your… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Knowledge itself is a neutral tool that can be used for good or evil. Wisdom, in contrast, always directs us toward happiness.… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Embrace every challenge you have, every person you meet, every place you visit, every task you succeed at, and especially those at… — Richie Sambora Copy Share Image
As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
The United States has an isolationist and insular culture, combined with a global and interventionist posture. This highly dangerous and febrile mixture,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
