A culture's ability to understand the world and itself is critical to its survival. But today we are led into the arena of public debate by seers whose main gift is their ability to compel people to continue to watch them.
George Saunders
Related The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL This is the way to make things work for you. Put your ability to work SOTONYE ANGA Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage chang... LEON C. MEGGINSON To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT To love is to act. VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace. BEN OAK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt... BIJOU HUNTER Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its abili... GENE RODDENBERRY We are the books we read and the things we love. CATH CROWLEY You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you. MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become. EMMA PAUL It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru... SUDHIR KAKAR If you argue with a fool, you become a fool. L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great. EMMA PAUL You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm! COLETTE there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ... OSCAR WILDE I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they... PHILIP HENSHER Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself. MEG CABOT I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what. JENNIFER NIVEN 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't. JASPER FFORDE Judge not lest ye be judged. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society. ABHIJIT NASKAR The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you. KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I ... SHELLEY LUBBEN 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live. JOYCE RACHELLE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in such a compromising posi... JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot... C. ROBERT CARGILL See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY The sad heart needs work to do. JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD Maxim 1: Pillage, then burn. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Merc... HOWARD TAYLER Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there ... CASSANDRA CLARE A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life: 1. Never put off to tomorrow wha... THOMAS JEFFERSON You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,... SUDHIR KAKAR The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi... LIBBA BRAY In a world of words, anything is possible... LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important. JEFF OLSON There is no one right way. Just figure out what works for you! LORII MYERS Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'... AYN RAND To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another. IRVIN D. YALOM Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do? TERRY PRATCHETT I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. To understand people, is an impossible thing for a man or women to accomplish, but to understand a p... AUSTIN J SCIME - Mrzim sve što je odricanje! - Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ... 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JEANIENE FROST A librarian for president is exactly what this country needs. RICHARD CASTLE The power of the intelligentsia is demonstrated not only by their ability to create a general climat... THOMAS SOWELL The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS
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CAL SAUNDERS The last game we were supposed to send a message to Lockport and we didn't. They had a good game pla... CAL SAUNDERS I thought their kid should have gotten the T, or at least both of them should have gotten one. We (h... CAL SAUNDERS He's getting better. We're still not throwing him the ball much on offense, but he's getting some bo... CAL SAUNDERS All you can do is speculate right now. CAL SAUNDERS Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect FREDERICK SAUNDERS Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea. RICHARD SAUNDERS Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world FREDERICK SAUNDERS Walden Pond? You mean like Thoreau? RUTH SAUNDERS The scheme as broadly proposed by Turner is perfectly workable. RICHARD SAUNDERS The rally in energy stocks probably reflects most of the good news in the sector, ... We think it is... RICHARD SAUNDERS I know this is a White House priority. They feel they stand a real chance of getting the funding str... RICHARD SAUNDERS I've been here for five months, and this team still amazes me with its poise. FLIP SAUNDERS Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea. FREDERICK SAUNDERS My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. I... BEN SAUNDERS It looks like it would be a great reproduction of a mansion that was once there but is no longer the... JOHN SAUNDERS As part of our relationship with Joe Gibbs Racing, we were able to use their expertise in selecting ... BILL SAUNDERS Last year's fuel price run-up and Middle East crises may have not only hurt American drivers' pocket... BILL SAUNDERS I'm sure there are some Republicans who'd prefer not to deal with it. Sometimes politicians like to ... BILL SAUNDERS We have in my opinion one of the finest race car drivers ever to kick off the season, and give us so... 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