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Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.

Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.

We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.

When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

We'd like to make it [bucky fiber] in a continuous fiber, roll it on a drum, and go fishing with it.

Pre-suasion is the practice of getting people sympathetic to your message before they experience it.

It can be demonstrated that in any society there is a distribution of religious tastes and concerns.

Power stems from 'rainmaking,' as law firms put it: the ability to bring resources into the company.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

Promoting open and critical and respectful scientific discourse seems like a pretty good goal to me.

Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.

Creative activity is one of the few self rewarding activities. Being creative is like being in love!

I do not know how much my own work has achieved, and I must not pretend it has done more than it has.

We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.

When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.

The whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner's development and have them encourage yours.

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

We found that process praise predicted the child's mindset and desire for challenge five years later.

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

The best strategy is a balance between having a deliberate one, and a flexible, or emergent strategy.

One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.

Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.

Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.

Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.

I (naively) thought university training would make you better in following what happens in the world.

Prayer is especially crucial when you come to a place in your study where you are stuck and confused.

...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.

When we're done with employer-based health insurance, it will have as much life in it as Jimmy Hoffa.

Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.

Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I'm glad those people don't love me.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.

The companies aren't hiring, because consumers don't have enough money to buy the goods and services.

I think there is another choice for women; it involves challenging Guyland and supporting each other.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

Some people don't like competition, but competition is fine. It generates new ideas, keeps you alert.

The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.

If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.

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