Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.… — David Platt Copy Share Image
I have empathy towards bullying. Not about punishing the bully but empowering the victim. We have a tendency to use the word… — Renee Lawless Copy Share Image
That sound in tune to you? Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I'm playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
I have long had a tendency to tie marksmanship to morality. The essence of good marksmanship is self-control, and self-control is the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
People are funny -- they are able to project personality onto anything. I remember as a kid I spent a $ 5… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Animals love. They love their being. They strive to survive, to celebrate, to propagate . So certainly something we learn from animals… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
Cultivate your own garden and let go of your tendency to examine and judge how others cultivate theirs. Catch yourself in moments… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential… — James Madison Copy Share Image
How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The antagonism between nationalities will lose all its acuteness on the day when neither the iniquitous tendency to oppression and domination, nor… — African Spir Copy Share Image
The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up.… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
When you're out there in America, meeting with regular people, it's a pretty mellow, relaxed, kind-hearted country. The direction from the top,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It is one of the saddest spectacles of our time to see a great democratic movement support a policy which must lead… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
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On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
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We do Him [God] honor in our pledge of allegiance, in all our public ceremonies. There's nothing wrong with that. It is… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There is a tendency among some businesses to criticize and belittle their competitors. This is a bad procedure. Praise them. Learn from… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
This is one of the things I don't like so much about French cinema - we have tendency to concentrate on actors… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
Some children are born from heaven and others are born from hell, because each human being has his inherent tendencies, and these… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced -… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The growth of the soul may be compared to the growth of a plant. In both cases, no new properties are imparted… — George Ripley Copy Share Image
There is a tendency sometimes within the Shambhala community to make it just about meditating and, so, less about compassion. Shambhala is… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation,… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
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