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Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below.
Speaker: Roger BaldwinPosted: 28 Jul 2009 at 11:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Speaker: Victor HugoPosted: 28 Jul 2009 at 11:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Activism is my rent for living on this planet.
Speaker: Alice WalkerPosted: 28 Jul 2009 at 11:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Speaker: Ansel AdamsPosted: 28 Jul 2009 at 11:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.
Speaker: Rachel CarsonPosted: 28 Jul 2009 at 11:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Speaker: Arthur ClarkePosted: 28 Jul 2009 at 6:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Speaker: Helen KellerSource: http://www.quoteland.com/Posted: 06 Jul 2009 at 11:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Educators may bring upon themselves unnecessary travail by taking a tactless and unjustifiable position about the relation between scientific and religious narratives. We see this, of course, in the conflict concerning creation science. Some educators representing, as they think, the conscience of science act much like those legislators who in 1925 prohibited by law the teaching of evolution in Tennessee. In that case, anti-evolutionists were fearful that a scientific idea would undermine religious belief. Today, pro-evolutionists are fearful that a religious idea will undermine scientific belief. The former had insufficient confidence in religion; the latter insufficient confidence in science. The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other.
Speaker: Neil PostmanPosted: 06 Jul 2009 at 9:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Speaker: Louis PasteurPosted: 06 Jul 2009 at 9:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
Speaker: John Maynard KeynesSource: Quoted in: K. Eric Drexler Engines of Creation: the Coming Era of Nanotechnology, Bantam, New York, 1987, p 231. (http://naturalscience.com/dsqhome.html)Posted: 06 Jul 2009 at 8:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Speaker: Pope John Paul IISource: James Reston, Galileo, A Life, HarperCollins, NY, 1994, p 461 (http://naturalscience.com/dsqhome.html)Posted: 06 Jul 2009 at 8:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree.
Speaker: Charles DarwinSource: The Origin of Species, John Murray, London, 1859 (http://naturalscience.com/dsqhome.html)Posted: 06 Jul 2009 at 8:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously.
Speaker: Hubert HumphreySource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 3:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.
Speaker: John F. KennedySource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 3:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
Speaker: Adolf BerleSource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 3:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Speaker: William ShakespeareSource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 3:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
Speaker: Uta HagenSource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 3:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in a small way.
Speaker: Edith WhartonSource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 3:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinSource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 11:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinSource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 11:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
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