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Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
Like begets like; honesty begets honesty; trust, trust; and so on.
Adding CO2 to the air is like throwing another blanket on the bed.
You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media.
Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.
Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.
We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
I'd rather wear black than bright florals like most fat ladies do.
It's bad biology to rob nonhuman animals of their emotional lives.
The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.
Grey is my hair colour. I really can't see why I should change it.
You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.
All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.
Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.
You don't understand. You're not a wave. You're part of the ocean.
Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.
Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?
Charity is not an act but a way of life, a condition of the heart.
It is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.
In that he didn't die at the finish line, he could have run faster
I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.
Speech recognition today doesn't really work in noisy environments.
Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well.
Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.
New Yorkers seem to think the best thing two people can do is talk.
Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.
I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.
The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.
In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai.
When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.
Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.
If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.
Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.
In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.
Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
As a government employee, you can't testify against the government.
Abortion is a denial of one of those powers which make women women.
I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can
When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
The mass criminalization of white men would disturb us to the core.
As a journalist, you're always worried, 'Did I get the full story?'
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.
Whoever marries the spirit of the times must soon become a widower.
We're going right down the toilet, and it's a made-in-China toilet.
An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh.