I worry that even well-intentioned attempts to "improve nature" (say by reducing suffering) will make things worse even in their own terms. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
In our industry today only a strong company with a global reach can ensure long-term employment and provide acceptable returns for shareholders. — Lakshmi Copy Share Image
Treating 'water' as a name of a single scattered object is not intended to enable us to dispense with general terms and… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping. — Kate Fox Copy Share Image
Germany's population is getting older and older and smaller and smaller. To be able to finance our welfare system over the long… — Paul Achleitner Copy Share Image
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My first love is acting, but the reality is that I just don't get too many opportunities to stretch, and grow, and… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
I really like my life right now. I have friends around me all the time. I’ve started painting more. I’ve been working… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors… — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Copy Share Image
To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most people who've never experienced non-ordinary states of consciousness and only hear them described tend to try to describe them in terms… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
What I like way better than LGBT in terms of labeling sexuality actually is a scheme that comes to me from my… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Government shutdowns do not actually become what the term implies. Two-thirds of the government cannot shut down. We're only talking about the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Kripke says that physicalists like me can't explain the 'apparent contingency' of mind-brain identities. He maintains that, if I really believed that… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed--and we face other delays during the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What sort of power is it that really and truly renders the deity present? Human beings automatically think of God as someone… — Jon Sobrino Copy Share Image
. . . the example given by the Nazi regime as to the ability of a modern state to destroy human lives… — Omer Bartov Copy Share Image
I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Jung first gave us the term ‘shadow’ to refer to those parts of our personality that have been rejected out of fear,… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup… — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
I think my parents - my parents were very hands-off, quite liberal in terms of their - they really - they did… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I think that under ordinary circumstances (i.e., neither person is famous), it's already hard enough to make a long-term romantic relationship work,… — Christine Sneed Copy Share Image
The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Dubai's world class physical infrastructure has already established it as a major player in terms of trade, tourism and as the leading… — Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Copy Share Image
We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in… — Johannes Rau Copy Share Image
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
I tend to think in dramatic terms. In life, there may be an actual drama, but it would be the fictionalized, imagined… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When "reality" is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We Germans are particularly aware that you can only be successful on the global market over the long term if you offer… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise… — Paul Daniels Copy Share Image
I know when I'm bad, I know when I'm good, and I know when I'm everything in between. I don't have any… — Bebe Neuwirth Copy Share Image
Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot. — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
