The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

James Russell Lowell

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Wangari Maathai

We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.

David Ansen

I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them.

Lee Scott

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

Twyla Tharp

He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot.

Proverb

I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.

Henry David Thoreau

When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.

Susan Orlean

Only do what your heart tells you.

Princess Diana

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness.

George Eliot

If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions.

Bjorn Lomborg

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

Tom Stoppard