Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
My first western was 'Death Hunt' with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin; that was where I learned to ride. The movie was… — William Sanderson Copy Share Image
In Cuba, what we do not accept is the comparison of our participatory democracy with bourgeois democracy which has not solved anything… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a… — Ferdinand Columbus Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
The Jews fastened their religion upon the Western world, not because it was more reasonable than the religions of their contemporaries -… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also… — Anne Wilson Schaef Copy Share Image
Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“We all end up dying in the end. It’s just a question of how and when.” — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation. — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
I wish to be put away in a western dress I designed, with my daughter's little gold cross necklace and my son's… — Patsy Cline Copy Share Image
The possible signs of a coming collapse are the same as the greatest strengths of Western civilization: democracy, capitalism, the generally peaceful… — Arthur Demarest Copy Share Image
The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
This is a boyhood dream, but I've always wanted to play the sheriff. I've wanted to be in a Western, in the… — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
The so-called Philosophy of India is even more blowsy and senseless than the metaphysics of the West. It is at war with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of… — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
“States are far less violent than traditional bands and tribes. Modern Western countries, even in their most war-torn centuries, suffered no more… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
