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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.
The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.
The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.
From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
These days the biggest issue is how many calories you consume. So all of this stuff distracts people from thinking about calories.
The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how.
One of those lies is that all we need to do is elect more Democrats. No. That actually isn't going to get us to the Promised Land.
A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.
If an enterprise does not aspire to be the best of its kind, it will attract second-rate employees, and it will be soon forgotten.
Are you a fun-loving Tigger or a sad-sack Eeyore? Pick a camp. I think it's clear where I stand on the great Tigger/Eeyore debate!
The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of others.
My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.
I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.
Go to a job interview and tell and employer that you can recite the 17 times table; they don't care. Why are we still teaching it?
The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.
I think the contribution people make is not proportionate to their fame or success. In fact, I think the relation is often inverse.
Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.
Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?
The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
We've done a very poor job at really reflecting on our legacy of racial inequality... You see it in the South, but it's everywhere.
I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I hope to be part of that process.
Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed.
Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
The dynamic of fathers and sons seems to be more around competition regarding things such as knowledge, accomplishments, expertise.
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.
A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.
To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.
The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.
Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?
Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.
The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?
I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.
When the focus becomes 'What would Jesus do?' instead of 'What has Jesus done?' the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter.
Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.
Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.
We can either help to make this world a more incredible place than it has ever been, or we can hasten its return to inorganic dust.
When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.
The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.
The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better
I once got a call from a bank, asking me to compute a mortgage, since their computers were down. This was a very depressing moment.
Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water problem, you solve the food problem.
Whether you're religious or not, there is a real need for other people's religious positions to be treated with the upmost respect.
I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.
Now to what...? How we teach people to make choices and the things they're going to make choices over - that is culturally learned.
We used to think, 'I have a feeling; I want to make a call.' Now our impulse is, 'I want to have a feeling; I need to send a text.'