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What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher. — Heraclitus
Compassion is not a popular virtue — Karen Armstrong
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters… — Alvin Toffler
Intelligent media companies strive to provide both intellectual and comedy programs, groundbreaking and reflective articles, art house and popular movies. Not to be open minded… — Lachlan Murdoch
Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being… — Will Durant
Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular? — William Shakespeare
My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right? — Dexter Scott King
According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but the old crones… — Robert Klein
It's about time that we create first class citizenship for every American plain and simple. Every New Jersey-ian. This should not be a popular vote.… — Cory Booker
Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and popular than that… — Arthur Lynch
I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school are… — Anderson Cooper
One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or 'fat recycling,' wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that… — Dave Barry
Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom. — Mary Roach
My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa, so that after… — Wallace Carothers
[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack
Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis… — Andre-Marie Ampere
If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians. — Rudolf Virchow
Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment. — Gregory S. Paul
The definition of strong leadership is not about making decisions that are popular. Making popular decisions is easy - you don't need to be a… — Henry Blodget
She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father. — Ziauddin Yousafzai
None of us grew up feeling like winners. So thank you to the bullies, to the popular kids, to the gym teachers who taunted us,… — Steven Levitan
Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national phenomenon. ... And… — William Shatner
Teacher is not a great popular person. They teach what they know and make people better than them. Teacher must create a student better than… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do with donating money versus a… — Garry McCarthy

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