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Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book.
A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.
Hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something important, the way to get power is by sharing it.
The guards didn't carry weapons. Malcolm X had insisted that the guards not carry firearms that day [February 21, 1965].
Malcolm X was the national spokesperson of the N.O.I., and he wasn't represented in their own newspaper for over a year.
The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
One thing I can guarantee you. You may not be a great deal wiser from my talk today, but you will be a great deal older.
Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as the body of Christ.
It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological.
Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.
Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too.
...remind yourself that the only thing you can truly control is you - and your reaction to what the world throws at you.
Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: "Enter into the joy of your Lord" (Mt 25:21).
You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.
There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet.
Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.
Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.
The most radical thing we can do is connect people to one another. That starts conversations toward a vision for change.
Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.
Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.
We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.
Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.'
People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices.
Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.
To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.
If you show a poetry professor your shiny new multiple choice teaching technology, he will invite you to exit his office.
Education is one of the industry categories with a big potential for AI. And Coursera is already doing some of this work.
There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.
That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.
Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult.
If we want to move towards a low-polluting, sustainable society, we need to get consumers to think about their purchases.
Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.
The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.
Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.
Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.
To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.
Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.
Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels.
Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.
A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.
Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.
No one can listen to your body for you... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him.
Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.
Europe is acting in a very self-destructive manner, but is doing so because it's trying to be loyal to the United States.
Bill Clinton presided over the largest increase in federal and state prison inmates of any president in American history.