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You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.
Malcolm ForbesRead
Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.
Robert Green IngersollRead
[It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.
Shawn AchorRead
The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
Michael CrichtonRead
Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse.
Henry Morgenthau, Jr.Read
A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.
Thelonious MonkRead
I believe democracy requires a 'sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.
Bill MoyersRead
The reward of the young scientist is the emotional th_x000D_ rill of being the first person in the history of the world to see something or to understand something. Nothing can compare with that experience The reward of the old scientist is the sense of having seen a vague sketch grow into a masterly landscape.
Cecilia Payne-GaposchkinRead
You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.
Norman BorlaugRead
Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make one quest: liberty and justice for all. Whether one's special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.
Carl SafinaRead
Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity.
Jane GoodallRead
The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.
Robert BallardRead
Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
Frederick BuechnerRead
How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
Donald KnuthRead
No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet.
E. O. WilsonRead
Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone
Tracy ChapmanRead
Philanthropy can be integrated into business. I believe strongly that companies can be incredible agents of good in the world.
Marc BenioffRead
Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy.
Nizar QabbaniRead
The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.
Louis AgassizRead
To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns the valley or the mountain: but to a naturalist who is reading in the face of the rocks the annals of a former world, the mossy covering which obstructs his view, and renders indistinguishable the different species of stone, is no less than a serious subject of regret.
James HuttonRead
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world
Charles IvesRead

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