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All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.
I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.
I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.
And I hope that we can learn the lessons of the past in looking at the current challenge that China poses to a ruling America.
People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. Nonsense. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!
Anne Romaine [ is ]folk singer and a skillful historian, even though she was not formally trained in the field [of Malcolm X].
I'd like to introduce a man with a lot of charm, talent, and wit. Unfortunately, he couldn't be here tonight, so instead . . .
The proper focus of holiness is not on being set apart from something (i.e., the world), but on being set apart for something.
Although our rules and laws are now officially colorblind, they operate to discriminate in a grossly disproportionate fashion.
I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try.
But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.
The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.
The curse of cyberspace is that everything we want to preserve will get lost and everything we want to lose will be preserved.
The whole dissident idea attracts a lot of crazies. And then all of a sudden, without realizing it, you've become one of them.
If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.
Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.
Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.
Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.
But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.
Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.
Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.
The inerrancy of Scripture means that scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact.
All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.
Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.
Its actually really important that you succeed at what youre succeeding at, but that isnt going to be the measure of your life.
Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.
We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.
Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.
I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.
Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.
There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.
Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.
Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
Succeeding in business and failing at home is a cop-out. For no success in the workplace will ever make up for failure at home.
Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important.
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.
If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by, it is a good exhibition.
I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them.
The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across.
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.
I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver.
The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive.
Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.
Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs