WHATEVER Life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've felt pressure to produce long fiction for as long as I've been writing fiction. There's just an incredible bias in the… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Insofar as Trumpism was understood, it was seen as a side-effect of poverty, ignorance and educational failure. A cry from people who… — Fraser Nelson Copy Share Image
To accept yourself wherever. you are.... And don't think in terms of competition! You need not be anywhere else. Wherever you are,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I used to play the piano, I was pretty decent, so that was the only thing I could hold onto in terms… — Lunice Copy Share Image
In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir ... designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
It’s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States… — Aviva Chomsky Copy Share Image
The media we surround ourselves with allows us to manufacture our own experience every day, which is a perception of the world… — Rick Alverson Copy Share Image
Evolution is an obstacle course not a freeway; the correct analogue for long-term success is a distant punt receiver evading legions of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's understanding of what the drug war had cost the country was meaningful. And very quietly in his second term, he… — David Simon Copy Share Image
It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
Nature is not something to be fought, conquered and changed according to any human whims. To some extent, of course, it has… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Many of the problems the world faces today are the eventual result of short-term measures taken last century. — Jay Wright Forrester Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama is taking a subtle and nuanced view of politics and he is thinking in terms of events well beyond our… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Before information age, living standards basically were flat. Since then, they've been growing 2 percent a year were about 30 times richer.… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and… — Moby Copy Share Image
The government can indefinitely control both short-term and long-term interest rates. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
God wants to help us to eventually turn all of our weaknesses into strengths,1 but He knows that this is a long-term… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Well I can tell you that for me generally speaking that I think things that I deal with are all to do… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
I’m fortunate to have found out early, in 1990, just two years after I retired, that I have neurological damage. I try… — Harry Carson Copy Share Image
Although the term dialogue was really a euphemism for scientists trying to kill each other, this format worked very well. — Joao Magueijo Copy Share Image
Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of… — Peter George Peterson Copy Share Image
When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to… — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few… — Aaron Schock Copy Share Image
The use of force is easy to rationalize in terms of basic economics. 'We should make them PAY for what they've done!'… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
The condition of matter I have dignified by the term Electronic, THE ELECTRONIC STATE. What do you think of that? Am I… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
The inflow of capital from the developed countries is the prerequisite for the establishment of economic dependence. This inflow takes various forms:… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The only game [Vladimir] Putin can play is to establish a lifelong dictatorship in the country, at first de facto and finally… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
In Cuba the elections for the powers of the State comes from the people, first it comes from meetings of the citizens… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Hopefully, there isn't any adjustment at all in terms of what I am doing and what I'm preparing. Obviously, there's going to… — Beth Mowins Copy Share Image
You know, people do call it homophobia, and even that term alone is interesting to me. Because I don't even know how… — Scott Fujita Copy Share Image
To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real… — Michael Steele Copy Share Image
I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer.… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it… — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
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![“I used to play the piano, I was pretty decent, so that was the only thing I could hold onto in terms of coming up with melodies; but at the time I [still] just couldn't, so my early beats were really sample-based.” quote by Lunice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/00b/lunice-86762_beats_i-used-to-play-the-piano-i-was-pretty-de_1315813.jpg)
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