Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
BRAM STOKERAnd that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
More Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn Quotes
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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
SALLUST -
Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
LEON TROTSKY -
The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
AI WEIWEI -
They love me for what I’m not They hate me for what I am.
BRIAN CLOUGH -
Here are some who like to run. They run for fun in the hot, hot sun.
DR. SEUSS -
The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
ALAN LIGHTMAN -
[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.
AI WEIWEI -
As man acts, God reacts.
BAAL SHEM TOV -
When we’re awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.
TARA BRACH -
Independent thinking is one of the things most valued in an investment professional.
ABIGAIL JOHNSON -
Our children are being raised by appliances.
BILL MOYERS -
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
ARISTOTLE -
The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
JOHN MUIR -
With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.
BOB BROWN -
There’s a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.
RAY KROC