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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

• 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

• There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • High
  • Path

• My style was always intuitive. I never used to believe in working on your body. Anything that smacked of vanity to me was bad for your acting, but I learned that wasn't true.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • True

• Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.

  

  John Morley
  • Law

• I think, for a lot of people, men or women, it's easy to have things not affect you because, it doesn't affect you. So to be a better ally, you have to look at it as if it's someone you know instead of this abstract person you've never met.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part of it through and through, the story that in turn becomes part of us.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Stories

• There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities of the world.

  

  Albert Sorel
  • World
  • Policy
  • Dispute

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

  

  Plutarch