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We need to believe that we're good people, and we'll do just about anything to maintain that perception.
Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence
I'm a linguist. I study how people talk to each other and how the ways we talk affect our relationships.
In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.
I think it's important to understand that North Carolina has been ground zero for conservative backlash.
Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
President Jimmy Carter inherited an impossible situation - and he and his advisers made the worst of it.
If you love animals but think that veganism is extreme, then you are confused about the meaning of love.
I think the election of Trump was an expression of what happens in ruling powers as they become alarmed.
What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.
It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.
There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.
So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.
I believe that the FBI clearly was concerned, wanted to monitor and disrupt Malcolm X wherever possible.
Malcolm X already envisioning the N.O.I. playing a role cooperatively with integrationist organizations.
For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.
American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.
Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.
One thing evangelicals want is a reprieve from intolerance against their beliefs, values, and practices.
Things like microphones are dangerous things because you never know when they might feedback and squeal.
Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs.
What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love.
If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at all.
...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.
The politics of banking is bad everywhere, including UK. Eurozone has more problems, unhealthy symbiosis.
The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.
I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.
I grew up in a segregated community: I couldn't go to the public schools, beaches, certain parts of town.
In the hood, you have a problem with somebody, you have to deal with it. The outcome is pretty immediate.
We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
There is more excitement, more amazement when a first is born. No subsequent babies can have that impact.
In some ways, siblings, and especially sisters, are more influential in your childhood than your parents.
Being a mother of two little girls, it was an absolute nightmare for me to teach them about sexual abuse.
The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.
When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.
Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.
If you asked a sample of Americans "What is the temperature of Mars?" about 8% would say they don't know.
The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.
Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.
Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.
Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
If you're a state and you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits.
[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.