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...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.
It is something of a miracle that individual selfish decisions (in a market economy) must lead to a collectively efficient outcome.
It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.
Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.
We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal order of nature.
Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand.
A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.
The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.
What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence.
We need to continuously put pressure on politicians to do more, because they are happy just to do nothing—it’s easier to do nothing.
If you are funding researchers to look primarily for pathology, not surprisingly, that is what they are going to find and report on.
With a fixed mindset, you're so worried about how smart or talented you are, you don't take on challenges. You don't try new things.
In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder
Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.
What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?
The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.
I've been involved in and out of the UN for many years - in fact my first internship was in 1971, so it goes back a couple of years!
I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.
For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.
One of the wonderful things about Internet is its like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.
Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?'
Love is inconvenient. Love is untidy. Love is relentless, ruthless and rapacious. Done well, it's hilarious, playful and redemptive.
Terrorism is really the only existential threat to America as we know it - as a free country that plays a leading role in the world.
I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life
Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions.
Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.
If in doubt, do not pain. Inflict as little pain as possible. Look for alternatives to punishments, not only alternative punishments
I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.
'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled.
I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.
Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.
When they first arrive, really, my eyes bleed! It's only when they're about to leave that they become people you might want to know.
All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.
The thing about being a university teacher is that you're fairly tolerant about young people saying things they shouldn't have said.
Trump's claims that he's making taxes more democratic for the people, but it actually is a vast sucking of income and wealth upward.
On the flat tax, the more you compress the tax rates, the more you untax where the income is really made, at the top of the pyramid.
We need transformational change of our criminal justice system - not just, you know, a handful of consent decrees or policy reforms.
For me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not ours.
To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not to all as some anonymous aggregate.
condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.
We're already in a trade war with China. The problem is we've not been fighting back. Trump, through tariffs, wants to call a truce.
People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing.
The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations.
Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties.
Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?
Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew
I'd been arrested many times by then. I'd been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years [from 1965 till 1968].
I went to college in the Air Force, and I went to college at the University of Maryland, who had college campuses on Air Force bases.
I am committed to the people who are sick and tired of seeing their tax dollars being used to fund unethical people and corporations.