3 December 2020 Lester Bangs Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
3 December 2020 Maximilien Robespierre The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
3 December 2020 Alexander Wang I think everyone shares a fear of failure – that you’re only as good as your most recent collection. That’s definitely a fear, but it’s a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.
3 December 2020 Suzanne Fields Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.
3 December 2020 Joan D. Vinge We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance… And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
3 December 2020 Niccolo Machiavelli Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
3 December 2020 Phillip E. Johnson Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.
3 December 2020 Tracy Kidder You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
3 December 2020 Willa Cather The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
3 December 2020 Karl Von Clausewitz The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
3 December 2020 Bill Shankly Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
3 December 2020 Alfred North Whitehead No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
3 December 2020 Robert Lanza We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.
3 December 2020 Scott Ritter Weapons of mass destruction aren’t pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They’re produced in factories. There’s science and technology involved. They’re not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.
3 December 2020 Ike Turner I’m really thankful to God, man. Like now, I’m really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
3 December 2020 George Weinberg We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.
3 December 2020 Lord Byron America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
3 December 2020 Renee Fleming Learning operatic roles is ongoing, and I find that I can learn on the train or subway, during a manicure, getting my hair done, and even while driving if I only look at the score at red lights.
3 December 2020 Irvine Welsh There’s all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it’s a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.
