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- “How is an ordinary citizen or subject of the King to stand up against this formidable machine, which, once it is in powe...” — Winston Churchill
- “I see advancing upon all this in hideous onslaught the Nazi war machine, with its clanking, heel-clicking, dandified Pru...” — Winston Churchill
- “If Great Britain lost her Empire and India and her share in world trade and her sea power, she would be like a vast whal...” — Winston Churchill
- “To hold up the mirror of language to a society in fracture, porous with lying and shrill with contempt for meaning, is n...” — Toni Morrison
- “A [physics student] ... discovers unpublished lecture notes by Richard Feynman, circulating samizdat style. He asks Gell...” — Richard Feynman
- “Nor, do I believe in inequalities between human beings. We are all absolutely equal. But equality is of the souls and no...” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “The first one has to do with whether a man knows what he is talking about, whether what he says has some basis or not. A...” — Richard Feynman
- “This opinion... appears to be ancient... that the one, excess and defect, are the principles of things... It is not... p...” — Aristotle
- “I have never taken the view which seems to give so much pleasure to morbid and misanthropic minds, a view which they hav...” — Winston Churchill
- “If we are to prevent this climactic danger from working its worst, we will simply all have to work together, and for a l...” — Carl Sagan
- “If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether the ...” — Gautama Buddha
- “I never turned recreant to intellectual culture, or ceased to consider the power and practice of analysis as an essentia...” — John Stuart Mill
- “It is narrated on the authority of Jabir that the Messenger of Allah said: I have been commanded that I should fight aga...” — Muhammad
- “Everywhere war and monstrous economic exploitation are intensified, so that those very same increments of power and oppo...” — H. G. Wells
- “We Shall Naturally look round in vain the macrophysical world for acausal events, for the simple reason that we cannot i...” — Carl Jung
- “What an obstacle had suddenly arisen to block K.'s career! And this was the moment when he was supposed to work for the ...” — Franz Kafka
- “Richard Feynman has related that at a meeting of the American Physical Society, likely sometime in 1956, he was chatting...” — Richard Feynman
- “How it happened that I in particular discovered the relativity theory, it seemed to lie in the following circumstance. T...” — Albert Einstein
- “If it really were the case, as popular opinion has tried to establish, that the genius were separated from ordinary men ...”
- “If it really were the case, as popular opinion has tried to establish, that the genius were separated from ordinary men ...”
- “If it really were the case, as popular opinion has tried to establish, that the genius were separated from ordinary men ...” — Genius
- “We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to selfawareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pond...” — Carl Sagan
- “The Jew is not a disturber of the peace of any country. Even his enemies will concede that. He is not a loafer, he is no...” — Mark Twain
- “Nietzsche's Just So Stories are terrific (old-style and new-style). They are a mixture of brilliant and crazy, sublime a...” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “A misquotation by Ronald Reagan in a 9 March 1982 speech, reported in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never S...” — Winston Churchill
- “This inseparableness of everything in the world from language has intrigued modern thinkers, most notably Ludwig Wittgen...” — Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Though this has been quoted extensively as if it were a statement of Wittgenstein, it was apparently first published in ...” — Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “We do not dogmatically anticipate the world, but only want to find the new world through criticism of the old one. ... B...” — Karl Marx
- “When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare physiological fa...” — Bertrand Russell
- “Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment...” — Thomas Jefferson
- “When I was introduced and first had to talk to her, what struck me most of all was her rare and beautiful name--Ariadne....” — Anton Chekhov
- “At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and ...” — Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Whether you are a Christian, or a Muslim, or a Nationalist, we all have the same problem. They don't hang you because yo...” — Malcolm X
- “Jobs: Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zo...” — Steve Jobs
- “His anti-slavery sentiments, so forcibly given in his Notes on Virginia, will be quoted with impressive effect as long a...” — Thomas Jefferson
- “The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided i...” — Albert Einstein
- “It is this mythical, or rather this symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict ...” — Albert Einstein
- “Does any lawyer doubt my statement of the legal status of married women? I will remind him of the fact that the old comm...” — Susan B. Anthony
- “The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or thing, having an indep...” — John Stuart Mill
- “I had, also, during many years followed a golden rule, namely, that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thou...” — Charles Darwin
- “There are some strange summer mornings in the country, when he who is but a sojourner from the city shall early walk for...” — Herman Melville
- “Dem Reichen übergibt der Baumeister mit dem Schlüssel des Palastes alle Bequemlichkeit und Behäbigkeit, ohne irgend etwa...” — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- “What J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller were to the Age of Robber Barons, Microsoft's Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway...” — Bill Gates
- “Gauṭama Buḍḍha, Sākya Muni, has ennobled the whole human race. His fame is our common inheritance. His Law is the law of...” — Gautama Buddha
- “Variant, from Preface to Max Planck's Where is Science Going? (1933): The supreme task of the physicist is the discovery...” — Albert Einstein
- “What I mean when I suggest a correspondence between good science and good poetic overtones is perhaps illustrated by a s...” — Albert Einstein
- “C'est d'abord une remarque très-importante que Pythagore alla de Samos au Gange pour apprendre la géométrie, il y a envi...” — Voltaire
- “Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record ...” — Henry David Thoreau
- “The party of Lincoln, called the Republican party, under its present name and organization is of recent origin. It is ad...” — Abraham Lincoln
- “A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started. He is going to sit where you are sitting, and when y...” — Abraham Lincoln