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The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change.
The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.
I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.
The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.'
One can only be in awe of the creativity of chocolate marketers. My take is that if there is a health benefit, it is small.
Defining child care primarily as women's sphere reinforces the devaluing of women and prevents their equal access to power.
In 2056, I think you'll be able to buy T-shirts on which are printed equations describing the unified laws of our universe.
The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.
If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.
The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.
Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it.
All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work.
It's not that you make a psychopath. They are - more likely, they come out that way, and they show their stripes over time.
I have two teenage sons, and they're both surviving, thriving, and having a great time, and they're always on social media.
Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.
A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.
Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.
When you're frustrated with people, when they've made you angry, it just may be because you haven't given them enough time.
The reason many people fail is not for lack of vision but for lack of resolve and resolve is born out of counting the cost.
Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.
The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.
Those who belong to megachurches display as high a level of personal commitment as do those who attend small congregations.
The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.
You know give me choices that are truly different from one another, otherwise they don't regard them as meaningful choices.
In solitude, we find ourselves; we prepare ourselves to come to conversation with something to say that is authentic, ours.
Every day you have to renew your commitment. Some of the strategies should become habitual over time and not a huge effort.
People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
You have to make a decision. You have to believe. Once you start doubting, you change your brain chemistry and you're done.
The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.
I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.
I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up.
The emerging whole manifests locally. It manifests in particular communities, groups, and, ultimately, in us as individuals.
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.
I don't know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some point.
That’s a lesson we can all learn: the more we have, the more we want. And the only cure is to break the cycle of relativity.
Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because they emphasize harmony.
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!
From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.
I remember when I heard the words "Biblical criticism" in my town, it was with disdain: "Biblical criticism? How dare you?".
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.
Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.
I always thought I was going to be a professional horse rider because I rode horses competitively from zero to 17 years old.
Gender is a key marker of power and powerlessness. Most of the structures of how our world works are biased in terms of men.
There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.