What John Marshall says is that right of occupancy can be taken away by purchase, conquest or any other means. So the… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
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What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued… — Gary Gutting Copy Share Image
The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the… — Alphonse Mucha Copy Share Image
It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I… — Pietra Brettkelly Copy Share Image
I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There is a need in every generation to study the past, to absorb its spirit, to preserve its messages...it's a collaboration of… — Christopher Tunnard Copy Share Image
It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
The Obama administration was filled with people that had deep resentment for people successful in the private sector, in business or what… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“From Rusticus … I learned to read carefully and not be satisfied with a rough understanding of the whole, and not to… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Where the subject lies so far beyond our reach, the difference between the highest and the lowest of human understandings may indeed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“He often acted out of impulse just so that he could then devote his leisure hours to mulling why; he relished self-analysis,… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I can hardly believe what these 12 caricatures [about Prophet Muhammad] have caused in the world. We Danes feel like we have… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen Copy Share Image
In autumn 2012 I conducted a dedication and blessing service following the Civil Partnership of two wonderful gay Christians. Why? Not to… — Steve Chalke Copy Share Image
“ Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I… — William Styron Copy Share Image
The novice trader is at a disadvantage because the intuitions that he is going to have about the market are going to… — Charles Faulkner Copy Share Image
We do some experiments in humans, some in mice, and there are some questions that can only be answered in nonhuman primates.… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
As a pianist, our particular role is to enter a piece and its logic and create a particular interpretation from our understanding.… — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
For more than 50 years, men and women around the world have reported sights in the sky that are strange to their… — Don Berliner Copy Share Image
You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Intuition is the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning. It consists of perception of fact with instinctive… — Anil Kumar Sinha Copy Share Image
“Dark Energy is poorly understood and it is clear that we are currently moving into exploring the complete electromagnetic spectrum that also… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
While I may not be able to describe to you exactly what enlightenment is like, I can tell you that it is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which,… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions,… — Homer Copy Share Image
Because I run Kernel, my thoughts are focused on understanding how to improve our cognitive abilities. Of all our cognitive capacities, I… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
It's incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It's about understanding myself.… — Shakira Copy Share Image
My hope is, and I know there are a couple of big manufacturers, and there always are - this is not breaking… — Brian France Copy Share Image
“Life is a great big beautiful three-ring circus. There are those on the floor making their lives among the heads of lions… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if it's social media or radio media or television media - it's all media, and it's all marketing. It's… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, butit is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Every age and degree of understanding should have its proper measure of discipline. With regard to boys and adolescents, therefore, or those… — Benedict of Nursia Copy Share Image
I am deeply gladdened that 1993 has been delcared the International Year of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations. It is the… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image