How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?" he asked. He waited a… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
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
We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional,… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
One key and defining attribute of God that does not appear in any other world religion or system is the biblical use… — Ergun Caner Copy Share Image
Incrementalism: In the first generation, the goal of the movement was wholesale social and cultural transformation. Small, incremental victories were too little… — Kenneth D. Wald Copy Share Image
I'm Kan, the Louis Vouitton don / Bought my mom purse, now she Louis Vuitton mom / I didn't play the hand… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
As a Palestinian today I speak of a Palestinian and Arab demand for a state on 1967 borders. It is true that… — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
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I would say the league is viable as long as you have owners who want to continue funding losses. But it's not… — David Stern Copy Share Image
Never generally means "at no point in time." The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
'Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including internal organs and skin.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the term 'guilty pleasure,' because it implies I should feel ashamed for liking something. A real guilty pleasure… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
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The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything.… — Debra Granik 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
Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
From a simple, mammal perspective, you think you're going to make friends through the movie. You think, "Oh, this kind of humor… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It turned out so well because it was the first album that I could identify with in terms of lyrics. ("Captain Fantastic")… — Elton John Copy Share Image
The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value"… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Young people, under the social contract, suggest a long term investment. What we have today is a government that believes that young… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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