In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm… — Jay Chiat Copy Share Image
No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Walmart and other big-boxers could become the center of gravity for the conservation of goods, employ people with actual know-how, and develop… — Lisa Gansky Copy Share Image
The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world,… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity. In India they use the word “karma” for lack of any better… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Order can arise from chaos without anyone or anything directing the process when unstable combinations of atoms perish and others persist. In… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
In terms of my Indianness, I try not to rely on it nor deny it. When it comes up organically in my… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
In Burma, we need to improve education in the country - not only primary education, but secondary and tertiary education. Our education… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
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For, when the credit of a country is in any degree questionable, it never fails to give on extravagant premium, in one… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable… — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
Wal-Mart, with its legendary focus on customer value in terms of price, is innovating in sustainability. Now, we're beginning to see the… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
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Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old.… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
You rang, Mino- well, you’re not really the Minor Master anymore, are you? What should I call you? (Asmodeus) Think of a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
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Any young person who comes to see me, I say, 'Look, forget about print. You gotta think in terms of getting going… — Terry Mosher Copy Share Image
The president really shouldn't be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take. — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
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My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving. — William Baldwin Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women,… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
We must come to terms with our responsibility to be the gatekeepers to end childhood hunger. Our love for life can propel… — Edward James Olmos Copy Share Image
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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get a funny feeling inside me that I shan't be here very long, and I'm not talking in terms of… — Marc Bolan Copy Share Image
We're at a great transition point in terms of population, demographics, and what it means to be a human being. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image