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The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.
The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
"Our experience of the world is being impoverished to the extent that it is being rendered artificial and prepackaged."
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.
You're not from Puerto Rico, so you should say Puerto Rico like all the other people from the place that you come from.
I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.
People may be said to resemble the pieces of a puzzle, each unique, yet each essential to bring out a complete picture.
If you claim to 'love' animals but you eat animal products, you need to think critically about how you understand love.
Veganism is about nonviolence: nonviolence to other sentient beings; nonviolence to yourself; nonviolence to the earth.
From age 16 to age 20, a woman's body is a temple. From 21 to 45, it's an amusement park. From 45 on, it's a terrarium.
History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.
I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.
History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.
I was surprised by how many people think of themselves as procrastinators, but, like me, seem to get a lot done anyway.
At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education.
How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.
Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy.
Because of empathy, stories of the suffering of one person could lead us into a war that could kill millions of people.
I am never going to write about dogs again. You can write about Islam, you can write about sexuality, but no, not dogs.
Periods of cooperation between political parties shouldn't be taken for granted; they are a stunning human achievement.
Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.
We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Can anyone seriously imagine a society without stable families? Maybe we should raise all the kids in state orphanages.
That what's most relevant to you is whether and how you're doing something different from what everybody else is doing.
A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.
Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.
If you're not happy today, then you won't be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.
I agree with Clyde Wilson that America can’t be saved or returned to its roots until the Republican Party is destroyed.
God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God.
Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.
If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
If we are able to allow people to earn a decent rate of return, with sufficient scale, we can all do well by doing good.
Despite all the hype and excitement about AI, it's still extremely limited today relative to what human intelligence is.
Only recently have people begun to recognise that working with suppliers is just as important as listening to customers.
What's emerging is a new synthesis of science, spirituality and leadership as different facets of a single way of being.
I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.
And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where; One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there
My most memorable science fiction experience was 'Star Wars' and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.
When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new one.
The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.
If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, then capitalism is not long for this world.
It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.
Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment.