We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal. — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
Developed countries should support developing countries in tackling climate change. This not only is their responsibility, but also serves their long-term interests. — Hu Jintao Copy Share Image
Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind,… — Theodore Schroeder Copy Share Image
Long-term travel doesn't require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll never see… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook… — Ernst Toller Copy Share Image
Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naive ideals of your own youth, nor… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The corporations who invest in lobbyists, it pays in terms of tax loopholes, tax subsidies, all the rest. It pays. Clearly, the… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I’m pleased to see the progress made on the Windsor Regional Hospital project. This is an important project for our community in… — Sandra Pupatello Copy Share Image
Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," regardless of the content of the issue (the evil… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as someone who put India on the scientific map of the world in terms of large innovation.… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Copy Share Image
Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Real love is always fated. It has been arranged before time. It is the most meticulously prepared of coincidences. And fate, of… — Mike Mason Copy Share Image
When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Writing and acting are almost diametrically opposed in terms of being an actor it's in your interest to be in shape and… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
There are some cases that have come to my attention where there's been a head injury, or getting struck by lightning and… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
We must recognize that the goal of a cleaner environment will not be achieved by rhetoric or moral dedication alone. It will… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
If you have the abilities to earn a lot of money and if you have the character to persist in giving that… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I know firsthand that many employers who comply with other labor standards still hire the undocumented. Many businesses pay the minimum wage… — Maria Echaveste Copy Share Image
Brand-name growth stocks ordinarily command the highest p/e ratios. Rising prices beget attention, and vice versa - but only to a point.… — John Neff Copy Share Image
The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I was looking, a piece in the "L.A. Times" about a paper called "The Menace" back in 1915, that was railing against… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I've never really thought in terms of taboos. I think that books can really help parents and kids talk together about difficult… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
In terms of relationships, women often completely over-estimate the confidence of men, and forget about needing to feel validated. — Matthew Hussey Copy Share Image
Climate change is, over the longer term, our greatest national security challenge. We have to do all we can to slow it… — Wesley K. Wark Copy Share Image
I think the UN's role - especially since it's not an extremely rich fund, and that's to put it mildly - is… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The existing confusion of conflicting creeds and sects is fitly represented by the term "Babylon," which prophecy (Revelation 14:8) applies to the… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
I don't want to get them in trouble for crimes in the early '90s - but there was usually like one pub… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which… — Helen Barrett Montgomery Copy Share Image
I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
