Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis Bacon
Recitation: by Male by Female
My well-meaning parents decided to send me to a Catholic grade school to get a better education than I probably would have received at the local public school. They had no way of knowing that the school nuns, who were the majority of the teachers at this particular parochial school, were right-wing, card-carrying John Birch Society members.
Jim Starlin
EducationSchoolParentsMeSociety
Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.
Jerry Saltz
TodayTimeBetterPoliticalPage
Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.
Jeff Goodell
BurnGasolineCleanerCheaperThan
The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.
Mercedes McCambridge
GreatTimePeopleGreat PeopleMet
A big part of becoming a funny person was a major defense mechanism. Onstage, especially as a woman, I've had to be really tough. The second you show a crack, the audience can literally leave.
Amy Schumer
FunnyWomanToughYouPersonLeave
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
Sophocles
GoodPlantReasonMankindGifts
Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
Simone Weil
NothingMachineThanLess
The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you to be a public person as well, and those are two separate entities to me.
Lois Lowry
MeSurpriseYouPersonTwoAlways
I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.
Chris Messina
ChangePeopleMeYouthTryingDone
I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about your own parents. You know, who were they?
Cobie Smulders
ParentsMomThinkSomeoneYouKnow
I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.
Brad Feld
TimeWorldRestFeelPlaceNever
Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
Bram Stoker
ManBlackOld ManLongWhiteClean
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