If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being… — Deborah Feldman Copy Share Image
The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where light is inescapable. It… — Jake Halpern Copy Share Image
A cashless society promises a world of limitation, control, and surveillance - all of which the poorest Americans already have in abundance,… — Sarah Jeong Copy Share Image
I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and… — Robyn Copy Share Image
[T]he isolationism of the Left stems from the conviction that America is bad for the rest of the world, whereas the isolationism… — Norman Podhoretz Copy Share Image
After watching the State of the Union address the other night [1994], I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
"Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I am ecstatic and filled with immense pride to have the world's most renowned professional basketball league join forces with IBA -… — Patty Mills Copy Share Image
To score in the World Cup final is not a small story, of course. Every footballer dreams of it: first to become… — Mario Gotze Copy Share Image
And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures… — Kabir Copy Share Image
Until now has there ever been a time in which so many of the prophecies are coming together? There have been times… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her… — Jefferson Mays Copy Share Image
The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything. We can never… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Out of your awareness you cannot become soldiers in a war because you will be able to see, with clear eyes, that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I understand why people are discouraged about Iraq. I can understand that. We live in a, you know, world in which people… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
My sister is dying for us to do 'Amazing Race' together. I would do it because we're very compatible. We've traveled the… — Julie Chen Copy Share Image
Who cares if virtually the entire world views Obama's drone attacks as unjustified and wrong? Who cares if the Muslim world continues… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Of course, an English aristocrat might have some contact with the staff downstairs and could adequately say a thing or two about… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise… — Eric Lange Copy Share Image
We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least… — Harold Hamm Copy Share Image
I was reading an article with Stevie Ray Vaughan a long time ago, and the number '1959' stuck out to me for… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
America's sanctions policy is largely consistent and, in a certain sense, admirable. By applying economic restraints, we label the most oppressive and… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Maybe the biggest award show of the largest entertainment importer in the world needs an economic incentive to embrace diversity. Indeed, maybe… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
It's the worst feeling in the world - to lose in the first round at Sheffield and then have to go home… — Stephen Hendry Copy Share Image
I admire Joyce Maynard a lot, specifically her memoir "At Home in the World." Her writing is beautiful and fascinating and seemed… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for,… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
There are so many people who make their fortunes of the misfortunes of others. I don't know if it's because the world… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
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