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From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large. (Wilhelm Wundt)
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics. so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
A government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath. View quote
Harry Houdini
The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. View quote
Alfred Marshall
Burke said that there were Three Estates in Parliament but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate, more important far than they all. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today's cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems. View quote
Neil Armstrong
A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned. (Ewan McGregor)
Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been. View quote
Robert Frost
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she follow'd him. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency. View quote
John Cage
Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. View quote
Maya Angelou
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch. View quote
John Dryden
Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing - desire. (Willa Cather)
If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third One near one is too far. View quote
Robert Browning
Was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day. View quote
Robert Browning
Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him. View quote
Ernest Hemingway