The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
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New York is great because it's such a cross-section of the world, and when you're used to people being shoulder-to-shoulder all the… — Erik Griffin Copy Share Image
Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Humanity's future, to say nothing of its prosperity, will depend on how the world tackles two central energy challenges: securing reliable supplies… — Fatih Birol Copy Share Image
The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions,… — Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Copy Share Image
a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“The wonder of the world, its' mistery and its' endless amount of information, the stars in the sky and the galaxies far… — Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache Copy Share Image
The full name of string theory is really superstring theory. The 'super' stands for this feature called supersymmetry, which, without getting into… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
That's a huge part of being a human being: looking for love and finding a partner in this world. When you constantly… — John Cho Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as a sex symbol. I just do the cover of magazines. I think it’s really unfair men… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
Every good startup is a cult. And it's really hard to create a cult if you are sharing space with people. Because… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
The cycle of God, the good, is broken by a single act of negativity. The cycle of negativity is stopped by choosing… — John Morton Copy Share Image
What I try to do is narrow the sermon series down to one big question. In this case the question is: What… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
Sydney has the world's best swimming pool. Walk through the Botanical Gardens and you come to the Andrew 'Boy' Charlton Pool on… — John Torode Copy Share Image
Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
For those of us who have lived abroad and seen our nation in a highly competitive 21st century, and kind of see… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world… — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“Destiny Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul Each choosing each through all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we are going to compete in this world we're in today, there is no possible way we can do it with… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
I think when you have a National Championship Game, a Super Bowl, a Final Four, a World Series, I don't see why… — Jim Nantz Copy Share Image
Socialism, in the traditional sense, meant government ownership and operation of the means of production. Outside of North Korea and a couple… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most damning things about our culture is the adage to never talk religion and politics. Because… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
The number of really good athletes is decreasing. People don't want to work as hard anymore and they complain. In the future,… — Marquise Goodwin Copy Share Image
Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
People's live are expressed in little details…The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table… — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
We live in such a consumer-based world. Everything we do, someone else has provided for us, so there is something really empowering… — Neil Jackson Copy Share Image
What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wanted so… — Kurt Browning Copy Share Image
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