That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

Harry Houdini

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Edward Abbey

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Albert Einstein

The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.

Vicente Fox

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Christopher Morley

Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people.

Doug E. Fresh

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Alexis de Tocqueville

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

Johnny Depp

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Chuck Palahniuk