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Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.
Confidence is the bridge connecting expectations and performance, investment and results.
Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.
The creative process for me doesn't work as well without an image of an audience in mind.
Exercise may very well be the most effective instant happiness booster of all activities.
Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.
God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act.
Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.
I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.
If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances.
The listening community has the obligation of distinguishing informed opinion from tweets.
I think in America we have some really serious issues we're going to confront as a nation.
Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.
Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement?
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.
The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.
All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property
If you are drilling for water, it's better to drill one 60-foot well than 10 6-foot wells.
Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.
There is still time to act and avoid a worsening climate but we are wasting precious time.
Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.
If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen-nothing else matters.
I still believe that education is about provoking some kind of original, creative thought.
As humanity goes online, it's becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit.
Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.
The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.
The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.
For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make.
We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.
It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.
So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.
A too-swift and easy coalition victory may substantially increase the risk of future wars.
I like travelling on my own. It means I'm completely free to think about what's around me.
I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.
Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.
The rich are becoming richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger.
Energy use is merely a means to many rewarding ends: economic security, education, health.
In one sense the doctrine of the trinity is a mystery that we will never understand fully.
When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
Maybe it's sex appeal, but there's something about an airplane that drives investors crazy.
Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.
People are often most proud of precisely those things of which they should most be ashamed.
Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian.
Education is not about thinning the herd. Education is about helping every student succeed.
Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being
You don't know what your abilities are until you make a full commitment to developing them.
There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.
If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.
But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.