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[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and political patterns...We are now...only beginning...

Ralph Linton

[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and political patterns...We are now...only beginning...

Ralph Linton

Tags: future, science, society, technology, time, culture, communism, fascism, patterns, progress

I'm not suggesting that teachers never tell the truth, only that it isn't necessary to do it all the time. Since coming to one's own conclusions is mostly how we learn, the real job of a teacher is to...

Roger Schank

I'm not suggesting that teachers never tell the truth, only that it isn't necessary to do it all the time. Since coming to one's own conclusions is mostly how we learn, the real job of a teacher is to...

Roger Schank

Tags: education, learning, teaching, cognitive science, socratic method

Companies don't succeed, people do. Companies don't fail, people do.

Nabil N. Jamal

Companies don't succeed, people do. Companies don't fail, people do.

Nabil N. Jamal

Tags: failure, success, people, fail, succeed, don t, jamal, nabil, nabil jamal, nabil n jamal

The world needs all types of minds.

Temple Grandin

The world needs all types of minds.

Temple Grandin

Tags: inspirational, knowledge, autism, autism spectrum

The grace of being is gift of baptism by washing in water. And in Spirit of Christ Jesus.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The grace of being is gift of baptism by washing in water. And in Spirit of Christ Jesus.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Tags: inspirational, inspiration, christian, theology, jesus christ, baptism

It's better to swim in the sea belowThan to swing in the air and feed the crow,Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

Benjamin Franklin

It's better to swim in the sea belowThan to swing in the air and feed the crow,Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

Benjamin Franklin

Tags: poetry, pirates, blackbeard, hanging

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tags: happiness, work, purpose, passionate living, life purpose, self expression, career, job, pursue, pursuit

I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely va...

Philip Pullman

I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely va...

Philip Pullman

Tags: beauty, wisdom, books, value, paraphrased, young adult, belief, book, offense, plot

In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.

Octavia E. Butler

In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.

Octavia E. Butler

Tags: experience, wisdom, pain, memory, empowerment, masochism

Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing was a choice swollen with omnipotence. It was, in fact, godly.And this, she now realized, was the r...

Steven Erikson

Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing was a choice swollen with omnipotence. It was, in fact, godly.And this, she now realized, was the r...

Steven Erikson

Tags: god, chance, nothing, fallibility, gods, godliness, godly, inaction

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Jorge Luis Borges

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Jorge Luis Borges

Tags: art, poetry, before, remembers

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

Maxwell Maltz

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

Maxwell Maltz

Tags: movingon, balance, sense, security, poise, foward

I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.

Ellen DeGeneres

I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.

Ellen DeGeneres

Tags: funny, think, cut, barbie

You really should stay away from me.

Stephenie Meyer

You really should stay away from me.

Stephenie Meyer

Tags: vampire, edward cullen

Straightaway, she'd called to the guard, Oh, boys? She'd sauntered to the glass in only her black lace bra and panties. I need some assistance, When they slowed, agog, she'd purred, Can one of you hel...

Kresley Cole

Straightaway, she'd called to the guard, Oh, boys? She'd sauntered to the glass in only her black lace bra and panties. I need some assistance, When they slowed, agog, she'd purred, Can one of you hel...

Kresley Cole

Tags: paranormal romance, immortals after dark, lore, kresley cole, berserker, dreams of a dark warrior, regin the radiant, valkyrie

Please forgive me for fighting against us, Gavin. Please forgive me for not fighting for us when I knew we were supposed to be together. Forgive me for being the weak mess I am. But more than anything...

Gail McHugh

Please forgive me for fighting against us, Gavin. Please forgive me for not fighting for us when I knew we were supposed to be together. Forgive me for being the weak mess I am. But more than anything...

Gail McHugh

Tags: pulse, gavin blake

If I offer you the moon on a string, will you give me a kiss, too? - Lucien Vanserra

Sarah J. Maas

If I offer you the moon on a string, will you give me a kiss, too? - Lucien Vanserra

Sarah J. Maas

Tags: kiss, moon, sarah j maas, lucien, acotar, lucien vanserra

I'd still be nice to you if you were ugly. Okay.A wicked grin slipped over his full lips. He bent his head down and whispered, I just wouldn't offer you any cookies.I folded my arms and tried to ignor...

Jennifer L. Armentrout

I'd still be nice to you if you were ugly. Okay.A wicked grin slipped over his full lips. He bent his head down and whispered, I just wouldn't offer you any cookies.I folded my arms and tried to ignor...

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Tags: cam, cookies, jennifer l armentrout, wait for you, hott

I was also sick of my neighbors, as most Parisians are. I now knew every second of the morning routine of the family upstairs. At 7:00 am alarm goes off, boom, Madame gets out of bed, puts on her deep...

Stephen Clarke

I was also sick of my neighbors, as most Parisians are. I now knew every second of the morning routine of the family upstairs. At 7:00 am alarm goes off, boom, Madame gets out of bed, puts on her deep...

Stephen Clarke

Tags: family, morning, neighbors, kids, tv, school, kitchen, toilet, floor, ceiling

I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. No matter how many times we reopen 'King Lear,' never s...

Vladimir Nabokov

I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. No matter how many times we reopen 'King Lear,' never s...

Vladimir Nabokov

Tags: friends, fate, literature, expectations, shakespeare, lolita, gustave flaubert, literary references, vladimir nabokov, king lear
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