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In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs… — Fareed Zakaria
Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives… — Clara Zetkin
Sleephackers go to bed with sensors on their wrists and foreheads and maintain detailed electronic sleep diaries, which they often share online. To shift between… — Evgeny Morozov
Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various,… — Matthew Arnold
The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by… — Edward Gibbon
We walked for some time, and grew to know each other, as best as we'd allow. These are some of the high points. They lack… — Harlan Ellison
Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer… — Wystan Hugh Auden
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater… — H.G. Wells
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it. — Karl Marx
Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have… — Thomas Sowell
They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were… — Tim Burton
Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its… — Rebecca Solnit
I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation-with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead… — Angela Carter
My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and… — Edward Said
As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At… — Martha C. Nussbaum
Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds of… — Wendy Mass
I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known that? I suppose… — Stephen King
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various… — Epictetus
The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent… — Dalai Lama

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