Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONPrivacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government – but the reverse… If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom.
More Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Quotes
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In the Lord Jesus Christ we see most clearly the union of prayer and life.
ADOLPH SAPHIR -
It’s a silly fool who thinks killing an animal with one tool is different than killing him with another.
BILL SMITH -
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
You were consumed in running away from yourself, and I was just another way for you to get lost.
ALMA-MAY NOA -
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS -
Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
LEO TOLSTOY -
There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man’s unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER -
Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.
ADOLF HITLER -
Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
E. O. WILSON -
I think America has to do more than be a broker now. Because both the Palestinians are weak and Israel is very weak.
BRENT SCOWCROFT -
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
JOHN LOCKE -
One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
AHMED ZEWAIL -
It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
Men are only as great as they are kind.
ELBERT HUBBARD -
Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.
ROSALIND FRANKLIN