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One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they [Al Qaeda] intend.
The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble.
The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.
... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.
Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.
Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless.
I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough!
I don't want to see a world in which women can communicate on Twitter, but their actual voices are not heard.
You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure.
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.
Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.
A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who he/she knows won't.
I'm a professor. I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.
But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.
Every minister knows it's harder to get the guys to church than the women. We ought to be asking why this is.
My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.
I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people.
People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional.
People can certainly be creative when they're under the gun, but only when they're able to focus on the work.
At the end of the day, I think the more online educators there are, I think the better off the whole world is.
So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.
People change jobs much more often, and therefore, companies, on average, invest less in employee development.
Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.
It turns out that unexplained positivity lasts longer than positivity we analyze until we fully understand it.
There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.
The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.
What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?
Praise your child explicitly for how capable they are of learning rather than telling them how smart they are.
You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.
Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.
There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education.
Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.
Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.
More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking.
All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.
In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.
Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.
What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.
If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.
Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.
Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.
Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.
There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.
In Beautiful, Mr. Shearer writes with humor and has fun with some of the glorious nonsense of Lamarr's movies.
You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive.
If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
Microfinance stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective tools in the fight against global poverty.
With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.
The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.