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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
Further south, there are some airports, but none our size. Our airport is the gateway to the southern Kansas City.
When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.
The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
The truth is not beautiful - it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood - but it is the truth.
On any given day, there's always something I'd rather be doing than facing the ugly, racist underbelly of America.
Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.
It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.
The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.
Never, ever cheat, especially yourself, even if you are absolutely, positively sure that you can get away with it.
I don't like to end my talk with a 700 million dollar loss, even if it shows the importance of Numerical Analysis.
Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training.
Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.
I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.
Change is like putting lipstick on a bulldog. The bulldog's appearance hasn't improved, but now it's really angry.
I suspect that among parents or siblings of a person with autism there are higher rates of talents in systemizing.
Mars is telling us something. I'm not sure what it is because It's speaking martian. But it's telling us something
We've had several cats. I had a cat when I was a kid. My Aunt had lots of cats and I got lots of calls about cats.
I'm seeing too many geeky, nerdy kids get addicted to video games and they're going nowhere. It's making me crazy.
When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse.
A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.
Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.
When you're dealing with an ambivalent relationship, you're constantly on guard, grappling with questions of trust.
Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
No one wants to hear everything that's in your head. They just want you to live up to what comes out of your mouth.
It would be nice, wouldn't it? if we could get comfortable about the problem of freedom. Kant thinks that we can't.
It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.
I grew up in the country in the rural South, and I have a brother a year older than me and a sister a year younger.
Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I
Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.
Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater.
Innovation simply isn't as unpredictable as many people think. There isn't a cookbook yet, but we're getting there.
When parents have college savings accounts for their kids, their kids show higher social and cognitive performance.
The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.
Arthritic toothless people who love orgasms are more likely to reproduce than are limber, toothy people who do not.
The trickiest thing about the double bind is that it operates imperceptibly, like shots from a gun with a silencer.
I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.
Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.
As a kid, you await holidays with a wide-eyed, passionate, almost maniacal enthusiasm. Heavy breathing is involved.
My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.
More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.
In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information
Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.
The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it.
The loving care of Mother Earth is in many quarters replacing the former sense of obedience to the Heavenly Father.
Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.
If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.
The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true.
We cannot 'fix' the police without a revolution of values and radical change to the basic structure of our society.
It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.