Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
See what your misery is, what desires are causing it, and why you are clinging to those desires. And it is not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
The real man of intelligence will not cling to any ideology - for what? He will not carry a load of readymade… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do… — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who… — Kato Kiyomasa Copy Share Image
When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk? — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor… — Marty Meehan Copy Share Image
In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To will the obligatory in relation to death is to fall in line with the major immutable cycles of Nature, especially human… — Edwin S. Shneidman Copy Share Image
The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary… — John R. Leopold Copy Share Image
I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan… — Bea Arthur Copy Share Image
Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people – mothers, children, babies, civilians – lost their lives as… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
