What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.
RAVI ZACHARIASHe described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.
More Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn Quotes
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We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind.
AL-JAHIZ -
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
H. L. MENCKEN -
In the longterm for Bitcoin, Gox needed to go away.
ERIK VOORHEES -
I dream …of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
BENAZIR BHUTTO -
I’ve turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I’ve made social faux pas a plenty. I’ve put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH -
Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
NIKOLA TESLA -
The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter…with alliteration, no less!
E. A. BUCCHIANERI -
Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.
BEN NICHOLSON -
To think you can creates the force that can.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
It’s always a risky business inviting somebody on stage. You never know what they’re going to do. I try to avoid letting people join me onstage because it can be very distracting, and overly theatrical.
NICK CAVE -
I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can’t recreate.
DANIEL CRAIG -
Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the World, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold.
W. E. B. DU BOIS -
Any fear associated with giving to God’s kingdom is irrational. It’s on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.
ANDY STANLEY -
If you pursued something that you felt strongly about, then I call that success.
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