Circumstances Quote by Ruth Benedict

Money is like manure. It's most effective when it's spread around widely.

— John Paul Getty Jr

“If knowledge is power, let's spread it as widely as possible and dilute it to deny those who would abuse it.”

— Stuart Aken

The bottom line here is that I have no doubt that we will control this importation or this case of Ebola so that it…

— Tom Frieden

I've been very fortunate to have my music spread widely via the Internet.

— Declan McKenna

An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary…

— Ruth Benedict

A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that…

— John Ray

We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has…

— Carl Sagan

When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this…

— Thomas Reid

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social…

— Barbara Kruger

I didn't start acting until I was 27, and that was just through Gary Shandling and Ben Stiller who I knew through stand-up. And…

— Janeane Garofalo

Timing in my life has been fortuitous.

— Joe Buck

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

— Herbert Turnbull