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Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.
You simply cannot tell other people they are stupid, even if they really are stupid.
Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.
Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.
What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it. pg 29
[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells.
Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.
Cloud Foundry is not exciting. What's exciting is what you can do with Cloud Foundry.
It was shocking to realize how many low-income Americans don't have savings accounts.
Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.
Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.
I am for peace. And I am for a negotiated peace. But this accord is not a just peace.
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.
Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.
Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
Christians call it the "Sacrifice of Isaac," and Jews call it the "Binding of Isaac."
There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.
Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion.
I have a suggestion for a new name for the developing world. Let's call it the world.
One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.
The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.
The church is always more than a school. But the church cannot be less than a school.
Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.
We had six horses, and I would compete. Jumping. Cabinets full of cups. I always won.
I definitely play some games, like Nintendo D.S. or the Wii, and some computer games.
Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than us
A lot of sexism is just very silly... and the best response is laughter and ridicule.
For me, [John Wheeler] was the last Titan, the only physics superhero still standing.
One must develop skills that stretch capacities, that make one more than what one is.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.
I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left.
I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.
Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.
Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.
Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.
The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.
Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative.
Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling.
There are some outcomes in finance we don't want, and government should regulate that.
It's the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.
I play the same album over and over until the people in my house are ready to kill me.
Human beings are wired to care and give and it's probably our best route to happiness.
In life we encounter many people who, in some way or another, try to tattoo our faces.
We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.