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Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

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• 'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • World
  • Book
  • Alone

• That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Will
  • Economic
  • Policy

• Because of the relationship between programmed cell death and human disease, the identification of the genes and proteins that function in the process of programmed cell death has provided new targets for possible intervention in a broad diversity of disorders.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Death
  • Relationship
  • Process

• Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • People
  • Honest
  • Usually

• No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • She
  • Man

• I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Writing
  • Reality
  • Interesting

• The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Moving
  • Child
  • Forgotten

• Nothing comes without hard work. I've been taught that by many people growing up.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• There is no original truth, only original error.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Truth
  • Only
  • Original

• It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Soul
  • Place
  • Hardware

• Size seems to make many organizations slow-thinking, resistant to change and smug.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Thinking

• He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Forever
  • Waiting

• When I hear the word Culture I take out my checkbook

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Culture

• Whole poems are made out of many single poems we call words.. .I am trying to recover a part of the poet's work which has been lost. Our first poets were the namers, not the rhymers.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Words

• No other player on this club with the possible exception of Bruce Walker has done more to put the Dodgers up in the race than Robinson has. He is everything Branch Rickey said he was when he came up from Montreal.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Up
  • Done
  • Player

• I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.

  

  Walker Percy
  • People
  • Business

• Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Men
  • Society
  • Freedom

• It was authority that turned men suspicious and stern-faced. Authority and responsibility which made them not themselves, but a sort of corporate body that tried to think as a corporate body rather than as a person.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Men
  • Responsibility

• I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Conscious
  • Illness
  • Tried

• Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • People
  • Crisis
  • Levels

• Basically It's a hypocritical view, because what your saying is it's okay for us to live in the dirt, in the gutter, in less than human conditions, but it's not okay for us to tell people that we are living in these conditions.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • People
  • View
  • Conditions

• Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

  

  Stieg Larsson
  • Women
  • Society
  • Interest

• Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Chaos
  • Modern
  • Instruments

• Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

  

  Plutarch