Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

Lisa See

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

William Hazlitt

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

Annie Lennox

Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

Heinrich Heine

I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.

Paul Harvey

Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.

Mitt Romney

It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.

Samuel Johnson

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

Holly Near

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

Abraham Cowley

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

George Will

There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth.

Richie Sambora