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- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one…
- It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
- He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that…
- I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the…
- Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as…
- I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll…
- The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than a few thousand…
- The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them…
- Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one-Marie, the famous Madame Curie-and is the only great scientist in history who…
- Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of…
- People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in…
- The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do…
- Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in…
- A chipped pebble is almost part of the hand it never leaves. A thrown spear declares a sort of independence the moment it is released...…
- ...democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world,…
- Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.
- One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not…
- With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely, human error can…
- How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the…
- I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.
- I want to be a human being, nothing more and nothing less. ... I don't suppose we can ever stop hating each other, but why…
- Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior…
- Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my…
- I don't expect to live forever, nor do I repine over that, but I am weak enough to want to be remembered forever. - Yet…
- What do you call that nice, shiny white metal they use to make sidings and airplanes out of? Aluminum, right? Aluminum, pronounced 'uh-LOO-mih-num', right? Anybody…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle