Quotes 6661 till 6680 of 9142.
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The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
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The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
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The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.
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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
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The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
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The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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The song is the center; the song is the key. If you don't have a good song you don't have anything by my value.
As quoted in The King is Still Alive in The Birmingham Post [England] (6 November 2001) -
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
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The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.
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The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.
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The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.
World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. V, Stabilization of Raw Materials, p. 56 -
The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.
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The subject permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation - both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents - and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more.
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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.
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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.
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The sun doesn't shine at night, and wind power is highly variable. To meet our emissions goals, we're going to have to grasp every arrow in the quiver, and nuclear is one of those arrows.
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The sun is gone, but I have a light.
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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