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I don't like to think of my readership as 'fans,' a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.

Grant Morrison

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

John Quincy Adams

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

Jasmine Guy

We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.

Paul Gillmor

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

Saint Teresa of Avila

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Bertrand Russell

There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in.

Grace Paley

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Herbert Spencer

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Jim Morrison

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Ambrose Bierce

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

Giacomo Meyerbeer

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

Sri Aurobindo

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

Brian Eno

A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have.

Cathy Guisewite

Remember, the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, have a working relationship with the Palestinian Authority security forces, which have been incredibly professional.

Hillary Clinton

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Carl Sagan

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.

James Henry Breasted

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

Paul Nurse

I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes, which was just wrong as it gave me a sad, puppy-eyed look.

Sienna Miller

He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.

Emo Philips