Consumers have to understand that the purpose of these claims is to get them to buy the product.

The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.

Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy.

If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters.

Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.

I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

We do not have the luxury of despair right now. There is too much at stake, for too many people.

Although the universe is under no obligation to make sense, students in pursuit of a Ph. D. are.

There needs to be clearer communication for the public avout how valuable it [animal testing] is

Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.

When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

When companies try to guess what consumers want, they essentially make the choice for consumers.

we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.

The dog is more social. I am not saying that cats are totally unsocial but dogs are more social.

Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.

If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.

If you can't explain what you're doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong.

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.

I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.

People are happiest when they're trying to achieve goals that are difficult but not out of reach.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

There's nothing wrong with changing your mind if you think something's right at a certain moment.

Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it].

The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure.

If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.

A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

I have always thought the women's movement traded too much on outrage and not enough on ridicule.

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.

When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.

I always thought every day was a gift, but now I am looking for where to send the thank you note.

Walls aren't put in our life to stop us, they are there to test how much we really want somthing.

If she doesn't really love you, then it's over. And if she does love you, then love will win out.

I feel like I'm waiting on something that isn't going to happen Don't complain; just work harder.

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