The only way to change American society, and indeed I think this is true of other societies as well, is for people… — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
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The owners of labor, on the other hand, are being taught, by the most powerful and well-publicized examples, that the highest rewards… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
We want to be known for having original ideas, inspired hunches, and gut feelings that make a difference. Indeed, a "well-honed sixth… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
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For if many ill-conceived plans have succeeded through the still greater lack of judgment of an opponent, many more, apparently well laid,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.… — Bjork Copy Share Image
Well over half of the time you spend working on a project (on the order of 70 percent) is spent thinking, and… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Well, you've done it now," was her sisterly opening shot. Jaine rubbed between her eyebrows; a definite headache was forming. After the… — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
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Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love that Toronto is demonstrating that a big, highly diverse, multicultural city can actually work and work well, if its residents… — Roger Martin Copy Share Image
We should have a way of telling people they have bad breath without hurting their feelings. Well, I'm bored. Let's go brush… — Brad Stine Copy Share Image
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If I can only live to see the American union firmly fixed, and free governments well established in our western world, and… — George Mason Copy Share Image
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Well, I would throw myself under the nearest bus, but considering my luck today, I’m sure it would break down less than… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
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Team members need to feel trusted and valued, and micromanaging communicates the opposite. Founders who are prone to manage every detail of… — Martin Zwilling Copy Share Image
When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
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People often say that a bad event is a 'blessing in disguise.' Trust me, experience will teach you that some are unbelievably… — Tom Freston Copy Share Image
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Here's something else you might as well learn now: If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well,… — Alan Vega Copy Share Image
There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
My students often say, 'My roommate read this story and really liked it,' and it's hard to convince them that there are… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It's about how the players play and compete. I know everybody is going to equate that on winning or losing, like they… — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
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