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Power always and everywhere had had a pernicious, corrupting effect upon men. It "converts a good man in private life to a tyrant in office." It acts upon men like drink: it "is known to be intoxicating in its nature"—"too intoxicating and liable t...

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

What we mean when we say that something is "cultural" is that it is roughly similar to what we find in other members of the particular group we are considering, and unlike what we would find in members of a contrast group. This is why it is confusing...

Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

A melhor forma de determinar se uma pessoa foi expulsa do âmbito da lei é perguntar se, para ela, seria melhor cometer um crime. Se um pequeno furto pode melhorar a sua posição legal, pelo menos temporariamente, podemos estar certos de que foi de...

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is...

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

My laboratory is interested in the related challenges of understanding the origin of life on the early earth, and constructing synthetic cellular life in the laboratory. Focusing on artificial life frees us to explore novel chemical systems, but what...

Jack W. Szostak

In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained by materialistic philosophy. It is the same case with the appeals for humanism, justice, equali...

Alija Izetbegovic

A Letter to Andre Breton, Originally Composed on a Leaf of Lettuce With an Ink-dipped Carrot On my bed, my green comforter draped over my knees like a lumpy turtle, I think about the Berlin Wall of years that separates us. In my own life, the years a...

A Letter to Andre Breton, Originally Composed on a Leaf of Lettuce With an Ink-dipped Carrot

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

Paul Mellon

Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.

Peter Tork

As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

Roger Corman

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

Stephen Gaghan

We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.

Shirley Temple

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

Thomas Aquinas

I'm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.

Tahar Rahim

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Time is the big bang, the original force of the universe.

Khalid Masood

Today's obedience earns tomorrow's rewards!" (My original quote)

Lalita Smith

Nothing really compares to the original 'Law & Order.'

Lindsey Vonn

Every people should be originators of their own destiny.

Martin Delany

I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

M. F. Husain