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Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.
We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant.
We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.
The central dynamism of Christianity, which rests precisely on a unity through variety.
The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.
We Americans are not about to stop borrowing as long as they give us money for nothing.
Elegance for one society is not elegance for another. It's in the eyes of the beholder.
Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.
Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.
If a strategy meets a goal: It's working. If a strategy meets a target: It's a success.
I do believe that something akin to a racial caste system is alive and well in America.
Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.
If we can remember the feeling of love we once had, we can die without ever going away.
I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you’re with.
The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.
Fairly or not, Western consumers associate Chinese products primarily with 'low price.'
Reason alone cannot give you a whole steak, but it sure helps with identifying bologna.
When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.
Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t
Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.
Let us damn America, let us damn Israel, let us damn them and their allies until death.
You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster.
Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.
Capitalism has not proven to be a transitional form, a gateway to a higher human future.
When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control.
I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.
You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.
I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person.
I'm the only tenured black faculty in the sciences at Columbia, in the middle of Harlem.
Canada, more than any nation, will be affected by rising sea levels from global warming.
I think it is important to remember that there are so many different ways to be sisters.
Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself
In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.
We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.
If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through.
So the real question confronting you now is: How can you afford not to be in God's Word?
I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.
You can't tie a rope around the ice sheet. You can't build a wall around the ice sheets.
In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.
It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
Connecting with others is rewarding; it makes us feel like we're not alone in the world.
The assertion that everyone benefits simultaneously from free trade is simply incorrect.
The only thing with press attention is that it can be very draining on our energy store.
I co-founded Duolingo with the mission of bringing free language education to the world.
Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers