Prosecutionof Quotes & Sayings

It is not too much to say that next after the passion to learn there is no quality so indispensable to the successful prosecutionof science as imagination. Find me a people whose early medicine is not mixed up with magic and incantations, and I will find you a people devoid of all scientific ability. — Charles Sanders Peirce

The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly closed communities. This is also due to the evolution of the Internet, where people only read things that won't challenge their beliefs. — Patrick Chappatte

Is it possible to love any human being without being torn limb from limb? — Cyril Connolly

If your vision inspires others to see their dreams and your actions motivate them to realize it, then you are a leader. — Debasish Mridha

In the end I began to understand. There is such a thing as absolute power over narrative. Those who secure this privilege for themselves can arrange stories about others pretty much where, and as, they like. Just as in corrupt, totalitarian regimes, those who exercise power over others can do anything. — Chinua Achebe

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten. — Milan Kundera

When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well. — Matt De La Pena

People come out to rough me up because they think I'm not going to play well. And maybe when I was in my teen years it worked well. But I'm used to it now. — Lauren Jackson

To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business. — Jennifer Aniston