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powerful ignorance science
There is at present in the United States a powerful activist movement that is anti-intellectual, anti-science, and anti-technology. If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the Earth, we must depend on the continued revolutions brought about by science. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
powerful thinking age
I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age Rosanna Arquette
powerful years denial
Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force. Ron Suskind
powerful speaks-out order
Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos. Rollo May
powerful home community
Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths... Rollo May
powerful secret sun
The sun comes back every day with new and powerful secrets. Rumi
powerful want halos
As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you. Tom Peters
powerful mistake love-is
Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin. Tom Robbins
powerful real learning
In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition of similarities between certain objects, situations, or processes in the real world and the decision to concentrate on these similarities and to ignore, for the time being, their differences. Tony Hoare
self people stories
You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story. Ann Beattie
self evil slavery
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. Thomas Carlyle
self firsts sin
The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit. Thomas Carlyle
self development needs
Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons. Tony Campolo
self suffering demand
Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our own, including logic and morality. Even among humans, morality is ignored when expedient. Why should we expect more from an alien life form than we demand from ourselves? Steve Perry
self advice levels
A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness. Steve Martin
self talking comedy
I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process. Steve Carell
self people way
Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way. Steve Carell
self use libertarian
Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense. Ron Paul
hands looks remakes
Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now. Toni Morrison
hands guy fists
If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend. Ricardo Montalban
hands republican-government numbers
The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people; but, that those entrusted with it should be kept in dependence on the people, by a short duration of their appointments; and, that, even during this short period, the trust should be placed not in a few, but in a number of hands. James Madison
hands liable humans
All power in human hands is liable to be abused. James Madison
hands danger tyranny
The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations. James Madison
hands political trying
It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result not of theory, but "of a spirit of amity, and that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable" . . . the equal vote allowed to each state, is at once a constitutional recognition of the portion of sovereignty remaining in the individual states, and an instrument for preserving that residuary sovereignty. James Madison
hands government political
[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands. James Madison
hands giving brain
You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands. James Madison
hands long helping
I am convinced that nothing but the hand of God can save us or help us as long as we have our present commander. James Long