To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect.
The whole idea of a democratic application of skepticism is that everyone should have the essential tools to effectively and constructively evaluate claims to knowledge.
need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power.
Power doesn’t always roar.... The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective.
What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.
Life is not just about getting what we want as quickly and easily as we want it; we must also examine the potential side effects of every action we take.
Ben laughed. "You think all religions are scams, don't you?" "Yes, I suppose I do," Epstein said. "But the religions are mostly scamming themselves. That they scam others is usually a side-effect.
How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?
If you are not angry with your average performance, you can't effect a change! You must get upset to grab the energy to break the fence confining you!
It's only "single steps" that make a journey of 1000 miles. It means the combined effect of many steps is the equivalence of a great journey. Go, take many little steps.
Who will you make happy at work today? What will you do? Remember – really small things can have a huge effect.
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.
We create a lot of unnecessary problems in our lives by acting emotionally...without contemplating the ripple effects of our actions.
Even the smallest changes in our daily routine can create incredible ripple effects that expand our vision of what is possible.
The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson's education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed people to take books home to read them.
Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'
When I came to University of California, San Francisco to work on infectious disease, I looked around to different options, and malaria was particularly interesting and fascinating to me. It's amazing that after 100 years of study of this little para...
You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films... Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.
I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and repr...
Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw? Oh curst Effects of necessary Law! How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan, Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.
