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Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.
Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.
Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.
Places that succeed in attracting and retaining creative class people prosper; those that fail don't.
Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving.
Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.
Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.
Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it's not out there is that it's inside us.
In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.
An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.
Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.
My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'
Psychopaths know intellectually what is immoral they just don't have a feeling of immorality about it.
I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.
...it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.
Climate deniers are less immoral than Holocaust deniers, although they are undoubtedly more dangerous.
If you want to make something dirt cheap, make it out of dirt–preferably dirt that is locally sourced.
The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.
Enormous slaughter may have been acceptable in previous centuries. It simply isn't acceptable anymore.
The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.
Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together.
There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.
I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.
Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close.
History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.
Gay and lesbian relationships operate on essentially the same principles as heterosexual relationships
Life is too short and too precious to waste it living out someone else’s values. We must find our own.
Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.
Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute.
Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.
Prison guard unions have become the powerful political forces in some states, particularly California.
The genetic you and the neural you aren't alternatives to the conscious you. They are its foundations.
Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!
The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.
If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a plan.
Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.
Reagan's genius as a communicator lies in his use of ambiguity. ... Ambiguity is the mother of Teflon.
I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.
We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.
Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.
Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.
Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.
I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.
[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.