When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process.
John Anderson
Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.
Jodi Picoult
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
Jean Anouilh
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
John B. S. Haldane
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Bertrand Russell
Saintliness is also a temptation.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.
Steve Jobs
Effective action is always unjust.
There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.
Samantha Mumba
An API is like a joke, if you have to explain it it's not that good.
@francesc
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
Nathan Fillion
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
Elbert Hubbard
It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout -- not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
Queen Latifah
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
Friedrich Schiller
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Plato
What you get free costs too much.
Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.
Jamie Oliver
When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
Rodney Dangerfield
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
William J. H. Boetcker
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Mark Twain
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J. K. Rowling
Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.
Jonathon Ive
I just want to keep learning.
Simon Kinberg
Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.
Corin Nemec
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers
The best smell in the world is that man that you love.
Jennifer Aniston
Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.
Michael Porter
We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?
Orson Scott Card
If something goes without saying, let it.
Anonymous
Technology is teaching us to be human again.
Simon Mainwaring
One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.
Lee Iacocca
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North Whitehead
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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