The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.
The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?
I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science. { }
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.
For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.
Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.
All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.
We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.
The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.
Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.
As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.
Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk.
For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.
There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.
There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
There is no greater call to service than that of our brave men and women who serve our country in combat across the globe.
When I became the first woman to represent the state of Texas in the United State Senate, it was with the help of a lot of women - and a large number of men, too.
I'm not a big fan of a lot of government dollars going into research and development for private enterprises... and you're not going to see the House of Representatives, I'm certain, provide a lot of money for research and development for electric ve...
