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Look at problems from as many viewpoints as possible. Figure out the implications of the problem. Implement the solution.
Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.
The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.
Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.
This is what Donald Trump understands. This is the trade deficit. We run a trade deficit of close to $800 billion a year.
Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.
I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I've got left.
Those who are to change significantly that which they freshly encounter must themselves be changed by the changing of it.
Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.
People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.
If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.
It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.
I've worked with tons of people that I know who are on the spectrum - but now I think severe autism has really increased.
The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.
Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.
I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences.
One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in.
Debating the best way to do something we shouldn't be doing in the first place is a sure way to end up in the wrong place.
The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure.
It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.
Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.
In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil and resistance.
Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.
People aren't looking at how they're doing, but rather at how their neighbors are doing and at their own place in society.
Change really isn't as hard as we thought if we capture people's interest and give them enjoyable, worthwhile experiences.
When you say "paying the banks," what they really mean is paying the bank bondholders. They are basically the One Percent.
Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.
Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I feel badly that I hurt you. 3) How do I make this better?
If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity
It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules.
I don't think we will find a cure for all cancers in the next 50 years let alone 20. I think it's foolishness to say that.
In the most innovative companies there is a significantly higher volume of thank yous than in companies of low innovation.
We ought to arrange calendars as we arrange art on our walls and ask: how does this task fit next to the surrounding ones?
Autistic people's disabilities are widely known, but one of their best-established strengths is their attention to detail.
Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.
Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?
When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.
How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?
Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge.
The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.
I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice.
Money is all about opportunity cost. Every time you spend on something, that's something you can't spend on something else.
Why would you take money out of your paycheck at the beginning of the month when you don't know how much money you'll need?
The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.
Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.
There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.
Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).
The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade.