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Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.
I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.
I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.
There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.
There are known knowns and known unknowns, but what we should be worried about most is the unknown unknowns.
I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"?
If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.
The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.
Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.
Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.
Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.
Some believers are fundamentalists about everything, but every believer is a fundamentalist about something.
Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.
Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.
We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’
I don't think it's time yet to eliminate cash, but I propose having a less-cash society, not a cashless one.
Global markets have a much bigger effect on prices and wages in the U.S. and elsewhere than they did before.
It is vital for Russia to normalize relations with the rest of the world. You shouldn't isolate your economy
I'd quite like to be in Caligula's court - living in the back room somewhere and just being able to observe.
Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition.
We're still in the collapse that began after 2008. There's not a new collapse, there hasn't been a recovery.
The Supreme Court has made it nearly impossible to prove race discrimination in the criminal justice system.
It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.
Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.
Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.
One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.
I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention.
The best single question for testing an organization's character is: What happens when people make mistakes?
A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.
Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will.
Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.
The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.
The most reliable joy is to be out of doors, to be a creature among other creatures. I find it very restful.
The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.
Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.
I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.
It seemed really amazing that you could write a few lines of code and have it learn to do interesting things.
The reality is that I'm making better wine than I thought I would. The whole process is simple but beautiful.
No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.
The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.
Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?
What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
In an ongoing relationship, each current criticism packs the punches of all the others that have gone before.
Maybe we're kind of predisposed to think that anything a politician does is calculated and therefore suspect.
Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.
He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me.