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11,363	47,421	One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.	Thomas A. Edison	money
2,262	45,370	What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.	C. S. Lewis	men
3,270	10,112	Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.	William Albert Allard	communication
631	23,016	The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.	William Ames	fitness
8,105	13,151	At this year's Open, I'll have five boyfriends.	Anna Kournikova	dating
3,325	45,415	Good men must not obey the laws too well.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	men
3,558	48,062	I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.	Muhammad Yunus	money
11,003	28,284	There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.	Blaise Pascal	god
7,512	31,281	Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.	Henry Rollins	great
2,327	33,764	Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.	Jared Polis	health
2,761	51,369	The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.	Georges Simenon	nature
2,436	49,981	The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.	M. Night Shyamalan	movies
3,699	4,122	Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.	John Donne	art
91	46,070	I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.	Emo Philips	men
9,517	35,910	Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.	Bruce Barton	hope
3,567	11,130	I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal.	Todd McFarlane	cool
4,044	70,963	All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.	Morihei Ueshiba	truth
8,746	24,147	Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.	T. D. Jakes	forgiveness
4,054	55,453	The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.	Nick Clegg	politics
5,932	45,075	I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.	Steven Hatfill	medical
458	58,830	If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.	Madeleine Albright	religion
145	32,391	It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.	Max Planck	happiness
1,901	4,796	It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.	Charles Dance	attitude
5,124	4,476	In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.	Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel	art
2,922	60,776	What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.	Italo Calvino	romantic
296	22,482	I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.	Helen Reddy	fear
10,341	12,154	My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.	David Rockefeller	dad
11,516	73,333	Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.	Thomas Reid	wisdom
10,800	9,401	Satire doesn't effect change.	P. J. O'Rourke	change
4,040	2,744	I would love to work with Anthony Hopkins I would love to work with Meryl Streep I would love to work with DeNiro I would love to work with Johnny Depp I'd love to work with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow... I think she's amazing.	Tara Reid	amazing
4,381	4,918	It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.	Herbie Hancock	attitude
7,561	63,107	A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.	Ibrahim Babangida	society
7,540	6,793	I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.	Steve Martin	best
11,600	17,783	When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.	Roger Clemens	experience
9,586	30,472	People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.	Arlen Specter	government
3,319	20,326	I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.	Lady Gaga	family
7,622	27,096	The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.	John Podhoretz	future
4,467	27,608	I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.	Jude Law	future
9,825	28,658	Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.	Alexander Pope	god
3,038	14,012	I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.	Harvey Weinstein	death
7,827	39,876	If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.	Connie Nielsen	knowledge
1,580	4,528	It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.	David Byrne	art
10,791	28,711	I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.	Joan Rivers	god
928	6,771	Time is generally the best doctor.	Ovid	best
11,621	27,620	Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.	Ted Cruz	future
6,597	2,329	I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, 'I'm on fire, I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work.	David O. Russell	amazing
3,978	18,559	Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.	Earl Wilson	failure
4,830	11,722	Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.	James Allen	courage
4,459	57,608	I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are.	Rashida Jones	relationship
3,255	73,546	Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.	George William Curtis	women
347	44,785	When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.	Michael Moriarty	marriage
2,794	24,763	The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.	John Boehner	freedom
202	28,414	Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.	Thomas Fuller	god
10,894	13,477	If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.	James Dean	death
3,706	67,641	In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.	Koichi Tanaka	technology
3,881	24,844	There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.	Wynton Marsalis	freedom
3,371	70,502	I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.	Eleanor Tomlinson	trust
5,965	52,395	All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.	Thomas a Kempis	patience
2,754	75,809	Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.	Robert Browning	mothersday
10,965	41,792	Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.	Edward Felten	legal
4,588	17,159	I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.	Andrew Cuomo	equality
8,931	34,344	We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.	Fred Allen	history
4,375	64,485	Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.	Orison Swett Marden	strength
3,601	69,412	You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.	Yuri Milner	travel
6,417	67,315	The dissemination of advanced implantable technology will likely be just as ruthlessly democratic as the ailments it is destined to treat. Meaning that, someday soon, we may have a new class of very smart, very fast people - yesterday's disabled and elderly.	Daniel H. Wilson	technology
1,366	12,094	I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.	Anais Nin	dad
5,285	58,585	If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.	Charles Spurgeon	religion
4,539	52,304	My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.	Bill Cosby	parenting
4,362	73,527	When anything goes, it's women who lose.	Camille Paglia	women
11,571	48,779	One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.	Jack Henry Abbott	morning
179	57,359	Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.	Joy Page	power
5,246	43,182	I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.	Khalil Gibran	love
11,540	68,273	You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.	John Lennon	time
114	34,029	We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.	Henry Ford	history
11,005	61,522	The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.	Stephen Hawking	science
6,904	42,199	Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.	Zig Ziglar	life
7,351	56,557	The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.	Aristotle	power
5,278	32,371	Happiness is the longing for repetition.	Milan Kundera	happiness
6,970	69,823	One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.	E. M. Forster	trust
2,696	67,140	So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.	James Dyson	technology
9,685	945	The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.	Delta Goodrem	age
6,520	52,891	A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.	Abraham Maslow	peace
3,649	3,363	Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.	Frank Gehry	architecture
937	9,433	People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.	Adele	change
2,718	6,376	God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.	Voltaire	best
1,078	2,616	Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.	Melanie Laurent	amazing
1,031	17,677	Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.	Shirley MacLaine	experience
11,176	26,682	As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.	Denis Waitley	future
3,608	42,920	Love is the flower you've got to let grow.	John Lennon	love
4,768	55,426	Look, there ought to be politics in politics.	Karl Rove	politics
10,887	10,314	Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.	Lou Rawls	communication
8,756	69,392	People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun cash travel.	Gail Porter	travel
10,281	4,446	I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.	Keith Haring	art
6,642	9,020	I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.	Mike O'Malley	car
7,074	54,786	Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.	Winston Churchill	politics
5,248	21,623	I didn't set out to be famous if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'	Sam Worthington	famous
909	65,844	No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.	Charles Kendall Adams	success
8,381	15,923	Education is hanging around until you've caught on.	Robert Frost	education
8,446	22,632	Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.	Sebastian Junger	fear
4,957	5,036	The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.	Wilhelm Wundt	attitude

11,363

47,421

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Thomas A. Edison

money

2,262

45,370

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

C. S. Lewis

men

3,270

10,112

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

William Albert Allard

communication

631

23,016

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

William Ames

fitness

8,105

13,151

At this year's Open, I'll have five boyfriends.

Anna Kournikova

dating

3,325

45,415

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

men

3,558

48,062

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Muhammad Yunus

money

11,003

28,284

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Blaise Pascal

god

7,512

31,281

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Henry Rollins

great

2,327

33,764

Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.

Jared Polis

health

2,761

51,369

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

Georges Simenon

nature

2,436

49,981

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

M. Night Shyamalan

movies

3,699

4,122

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

John Donne

art

91

46,070

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

Emo Philips

men

9,517

35,910

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

Bruce Barton

hope

3,567

11,130

I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal.

Todd McFarlane

cool

4,044

70,963

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.

Morihei Ueshiba

truth

8,746

24,147

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

T. D. Jakes

forgiveness

4,054

55,453

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.

Nick Clegg

politics

5,932

45,075

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

Steven Hatfill

medical

458

58,830

If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

Madeleine Albright

religion

145

32,391

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

Max Planck

happiness

1,901

4,796

It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.

Charles Dance

attitude

5,124

4,476

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

art

2,922

60,776

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

Italo Calvino

romantic

296

22,482

I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.

Helen Reddy

fear

10,341

12,154

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

David Rockefeller

dad

11,516

73,333

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

Thomas Reid

wisdom

10,800

9,401

Satire doesn't effect change.

P. J. O'Rourke

change

4,040

2,744

I would love to work with Anthony Hopkins I would love to work with Meryl Streep I would love to work with DeNiro I would love to work with Johnny Depp I'd love to work with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow... I think she's amazing.

Tara Reid

amazing

4,381

4,918

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

Herbie Hancock

attitude

7,561

63,107

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

Ibrahim Babangida

society

7,540

6,793

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

Steve Martin

best

11,600

17,783

When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.

Roger Clemens

experience

9,586

30,472

People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.

Arlen Specter

government

3,319

20,326

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

Lady Gaga

family

7,622

27,096

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

John Podhoretz

future

4,467

27,608

I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.

Jude Law

future

9,825

28,658

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.

Alexander Pope

god

3,038

14,012

I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.

Harvey Weinstein

death

7,827

39,876

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

Connie Nielsen

knowledge

1,580

4,528

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

David Byrne

art

10,791

28,711

I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.

Joan Rivers

god

928

6,771

Time is generally the best doctor.

Ovid

best

11,621

27,620

Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.

Ted Cruz

future

6,597

2,329

I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, 'I'm on fire, I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work.

David O. Russell

amazing

3,978

18,559

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Earl Wilson

failure

4,830

11,722

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

James Allen

courage

4,459

57,608

I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are.

Rashida Jones

relationship

3,255

73,546

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

George William Curtis

women

347

44,785

When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.

Michael Moriarty

marriage

2,794

24,763

The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.

John Boehner

freedom

202

28,414

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Thomas Fuller

god

10,894

13,477

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

James Dean

death

3,706

67,641

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

Koichi Tanaka

technology

3,881

24,844

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

Wynton Marsalis

freedom

3,371

70,502

I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.

Eleanor Tomlinson

trust

5,965

52,395

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

Thomas a Kempis

patience

2,754

75,809

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Robert Browning

mothersday

10,965

41,792

Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.

Edward Felten

legal

4,588

17,159

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

Andrew Cuomo

equality

8,931

34,344

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

Fred Allen

history

4,375

64,485

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.

Orison Swett Marden

strength

3,601

69,412

You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.

Yuri Milner

travel

6,417

67,315

The dissemination of advanced implantable technology will likely be just as ruthlessly democratic as the ailments it is destined to treat. Meaning that, someday soon, we may have a new class of very smart, very fast people - yesterday's disabled and elderly.

Daniel H. Wilson

technology

1,366

12,094

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

Anais Nin

dad

5,285

58,585

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Charles Spurgeon

religion

4,539

52,304

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

Bill Cosby

parenting

4,362

73,527

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

Camille Paglia

women

11,571

48,779

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

Jack Henry Abbott

morning

179

57,359

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

Joy Page

power

5,246

43,182

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Khalil Gibran

love

11,540

68,273

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

John Lennon

time

114

34,029

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

Henry Ford

history

11,005

61,522

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

Stephen Hawking

science

6,904

42,199

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

Zig Ziglar

life

7,351

56,557

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Aristotle

power

5,278

32,371

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Milan Kundera

happiness

6,970

69,823

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

E. M. Forster

trust

2,696

67,140

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

James Dyson

technology

9,685

945

The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

Delta Goodrem

age

6,520

52,891

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Abraham Maslow

peace

3,649

3,363

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Frank Gehry

architecture

937

9,433

People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.

Adele

change

2,718

6,376

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

best

1,078

2,616

Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

Melanie Laurent

amazing

1,031

17,677

Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.

Shirley MacLaine

experience

11,176

26,682

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Denis Waitley

future

3,608

42,920

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

John Lennon

love

4,768

55,426

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

Karl Rove

politics

10,887

10,314

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

Lou Rawls

communication

8,756

69,392

People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun cash travel.

Gail Porter

travel

10,281

4,446

I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

Keith Haring

art

6,642

9,020

I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.

Mike O'Malley

car

7,074

54,786

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Winston Churchill

politics

5,248

21,623

I didn't set out to be famous if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

Sam Worthington

famous

909

65,844

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Charles Kendall Adams

success

8,381

15,923

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Robert Frost

education

8,446

22,632

Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.

Sebastian Junger

fear

4,957

5,036

The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.

Wilhelm Wundt

attitude