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10,388 | 58,666 | Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. | Thomas Szasz | religion |
2,856 | 57,487 | You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't. | Caleb Carr | relationship |
7,837 | 4,488 | Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing. | Peter Hammill | art |
2,507 | 23,061 | You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six. | Yogi Berra | food |
11,330 | 58,807 | I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest. | Daniel Radcliffe | religion |
5,784 | 47,710 | I don't care about money. | Lady Gaga | money |
1,509 | 60,300 | We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere. | Eliot Engel | respect |
2,720 | 69,677 | For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places. | Elizabeth Kostova | travel |
7,817 | 4,731 | Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect. | W. Clement Stone | attitude |
5,357 | 70,052 | You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't. | Jack Nicklaus | trust |
3,541 | 12,986 | To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off. | Robert Moog | dad |
1,705 | 29,350 | Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around. | Sylvia Earle | good |
3,784 | 34,521 | If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history. | David Suzuki | history |
310 | 32,269 | Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. | John Lubbock | happiness |
9,361 | 60,344 | This post of President is a Constitutional post. It is the duty of everyone, all citizens to see that they respect the post... the institution of President. | Pratibha Patil | respect |
10,343 | 2,095 | To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing. | Shia LaBeouf | amazing |
9,934 | 33,058 | We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care. | Rick Perry | health |
4,141 | 50,159 | The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. | Omar Khayyam | movingon |
357 | 39,765 | Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. | John Cheever | knowledge |
10,606 | 55,611 | I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here. | Simon Cowell | politics |
1,715 | 12,554 | I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material! | Wesley Snipes | dad |
11,406 | 42,686 | There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | life |
8,462 | 36,345 | A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you. | Elizabeth Edwards | hope |
3,769 | 37,875 | In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening. | Oren Peli | imagination |
11,341 | 45,538 | The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. | Napoleon Hill | men |
1,637 | 75,563 | I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing. | Jamie Foxx | christmas |
8,800 | 26,116 | I never thought of myself as like, a funny person. | Lena Dunham | funny |
8,052 | 55,926 | Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether. | Lena Dunham | positive |
10,273 | 38,564 | From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found. | Edward Thorndike | intelligence |
6,668 | 74,911 | Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die. | Ivan Illich | work |
5,740 | 31,708 | What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. | Andy Warhol | great |
3,043 | 64,770 | Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai. | Orlando Bloom | strength |
3,632 | 7,895 | I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality. | Harold S. Geneen | business |
5,179 | 16,387 | My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. | Melinda Gates | education |
7,204 | 59,067 | Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. | Naguib Mahfouz | religion |
10,693 | 47,576 | In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money. | Carter G. Woodson | money |
11,338 | 41,308 | Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. | Eric Allin Cornell | learning |
2,632 | 64,081 | All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports. | John Hodgman | sports |
2,854 | 30,991 | Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. | Lao Tzu | great |
6,930 | 52,027 | Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. | Juvenal | nature |
11,025 | 6,957 | I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one. | Brian Clough | best |
11,257 | 73,509 | There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing. | Ziggy Marley | women |
10,623 | 43,773 | It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures. | Francois de La Rochefoucauld | love |
6,211 | 15,362 | Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything. | Dave Matthews | dreams |
8,177 | 16,312 | Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations. | Ron Lewis | education |
375 | 60,783 | With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite. | Bill Pullman | romantic |
6,433 | 64,361 | I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing. | Danny Pudi | sports |
6,074 | 38,471 | Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold. | Joseph Chilton Pearce | intelligence |
11,799 | 29,837 | The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. | Thomas Jefferson | government |
3,909 | 50,469 | You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music. | Sid Vicious | music |
9,762 | 50,950 | I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big. | Maynard James Keenan | music |
5,968 | 31,698 | I try something new every night. It's an hour show if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me. | Kate Clinton | great |
4,827 | 35,431 | Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff. | Emeril Lagasse | home |
1,217 | 14,203 | Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death. | Michel Aoun | death |
7,631 | 13,478 | I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. | Stephen Hawking | death |
2,039 | 47,833 | People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got. | Daniel Radcliffe | money |
11,462 | 27,372 | There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people. | Jack Kemp | future |
244 | 8,984 | I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy. | Patrice O'Neal | car |
7,371 | 67,663 | The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat. | John Pistole | technology |
4,242 | 72,553 | Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that. | Nick Cave | wedding |
3,893 | 67,878 | At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers! | John Hughes | teen |
1,649 | 23,966 | You can heal your body with food. | Stacy Keibler | food |
569 | 71,556 | It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it. | Robert E. Lee | war |
7,012 | 7,066 | I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across. | Clive Owen | best |
6,617 | 45,443 | Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. | Friedrich Nietzsche | men |
4,696 | 52,057 | I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal. | Jacqueline Bisset | nature |
3,618 | 48,444 | I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that. | Roberto Cavalli | morning |
8,132 | 29,368 | When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation. | William J. Clinton | good |
8,697 | 1,894 | She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book. | Liam Gallagher | alone |
11,480 | 49,403 | I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before. | John Cusack | movies |
4,352 | 5,696 | Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. | William Shenstone | beauty |
11,072 | 43,384 | I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. | Marilyn Monroe | love |
3,376 | 16,949 | If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica. | Danny Glover | environmental |
11,313 | 17,189 | Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic. | Stephen Lewis | equality |
4,954 | 63,545 | My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them. | George Soros | society |
11,268 | 37,720 | I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, ... | Nathan Fillion | imagination |
11,068 | 60,050 | I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a con... | Abbie Cornish | respect |
11,762 | 12,126 | It is impossible to please all the world and one's father. | Jean de La Fontaine | dad |
2,273 | 14,412 | Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing. | Ice Cube | design |
9,629 | 10,506 | The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers. | Adam Osborne | computers |
8,452 | 7,160 | Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work. | Karl Jaspers | birthday |
133 | 15,846 | The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. | George Santayana | education |
9,901 | 20,571 | We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot. | Elizabeth Edwards | family |
6,891 | 54,069 | The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. | Sylvia Plath | poetry |
4,661 | 66,071 | The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy. | Vicente Fox | success |
6,622 | 67,352 | I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops. | Gijs de Vries | technology |
6,883 | 63,974 | The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves. | Jeffrey Kluger | sports |
10,565 | 73,371 | Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth. | Larry Merchant | wisdom |
9,225 | 9,088 | We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. | Harrison Ford | change |
11,634 | 537 | Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. | Plautus | age |
327 | 74,805 | A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. | Bertrand Russell | work |
8,905 | 38,597 | Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time. | Yuri Milner | intelligence |
9,504 | 10,831 | If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.' | Trey Parker | cool |
9,987 | 55,289 | Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. | Henry Adams | politics |
1,183 | 70,844 | If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. | Pablo Picasso | truth |
9,990 | 42,999 | Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. | Rabindranath Tagore | love |
992 | 56,497 | Power in America today is control of the means of communication. | Theodore White | power |
9,864 | 73,375 | However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science. | Knut Hamsun | wisdom |
5,304 | 19,706 | The faith I was born into formed me. | Huston Smith | faith |
9,860 | 15,505 | Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta they go too low. | Sylvia Browne | dreams |
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