From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle… — Richard A. Proctor Copy Share Image
Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to… — Ellwood Patterson Cubberley Copy Share Image
I always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Times are changing and women need the critical stimulus of competition outside the home. A girl must nowadays believe completely in herself… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
I can tell you that my contribution based on my interpretation of the book is unchanged. The other things, in terms of… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Donald Trump may undermine some of the traditional checks on the presidency: the press in particular, but also the various government and… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The poor are the very lifeblood of the left, attracting activists, supporting among the intelligentsia, and - perhaps most important - allowing… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work… — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the… — Pindar Copy Share Image
The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Various religious systems have been given to humanity at different times, each suited to meet the spiritual needs of the people among… — Max Heindel 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
The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
Rather than the word career, I prefer to discuss how you make a positive I pact on the world. This could mean… — Robert S. Kaplan Copy Share Image
There are various art forms we may or may not have talent for, may or may not have time for, and we… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Jerusalem - a divided city, where demonstrations for and against various issues occur regularly. One day, during an Orthodox demonstration against autopsies,… — Micha Bar-Am Copy Share Image
Internal fights between various agencies, i.e. between the CIA and FBI, are highly counterproductive. — James G. Stavridis Copy Share Image
As Dante says in the beginning of the Inferno, 'In the midst of life's journey I found myself in a dark wood,… — Christopher Vogler Copy Share Image
Personally, I’ve gotten so that I now use a kind of two-track analysis. First, what are the factors that really govern the… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whether there is such a thing as Reality, of which the various levels are only partial aspects, or whether there are only… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
