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During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
I think [song 'Can't Stop Workin'] it's the constant work; performing and traveling. It gets to be a bit of a strain.… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
People say to me, 'Do you dye your hair?' and I say, 'Well, does f**king Siouxsie Sioux? Does Bowie?'. Of course I'm… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
The saying "no self, no problem" probably comes from Zen. In their cultures, where Buddhism is kind of taken for granted, as… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body… — Karl Buhler Copy Share Image
Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
And as Craig Brown - he's an English humorist, not a comedian but he's just a writer and humorist - I'm quite… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
You get respect in society if you are aggressive. If you fight then people respect you. If you fight back, people like… — Richey Edwards Copy Share Image
Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Now goverments are a different thing. Presidents who do not want me. As I said, an African-American discriminates against an indigenous Bolivian.… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property,… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
You have to abolish pension plans. You have to abolish social spending. You have to raise taxes. You have to have at… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Play not only keeps us young but also maintains our perspective about the relative seriousness of things. Running is play, for even… — Jim Fixx Copy Share Image
That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference… — John M Swomley Copy Share Image
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The point of the game is not how well the individual does, but whether the team wins. That's the beautiful heart of… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't believe we have ever had a Black leader that was so widely accepted among the masses of people, as well… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being,… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop... If you wanted to design a robot that could… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
Certain signs, some of them visible to the layman as well as the scientist, indicate that we have been watching an ice… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few… — Carolyn Warner Copy Share Image
A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I'm getting fed up of living away from home so much. They look after you very well but it doesn't matter how… — David Jason Copy Share Image
As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image