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Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.
The very first email I got [was] from a women's group saying 'We don't want this stimulus package to just create jobs for burly men.'
We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human health
High-quality education provided by MOOCs can be a significant factor in opening doors to opportunity—even among the college-educated.
Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.
One of the wonderful things about Internet is it's like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.
Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.
Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.
We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.
Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.
There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.
We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change.
Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed.
Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.
A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days, a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some species of tortoises not until 150 years.
I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.
If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?
Ironically, survey after survey shows that married men are happier and healthier than unmarried men. Oh, and they also have more sex.
One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.
Life is like a wrestling match- we struggle to fight but we never know that the only side that wins is the one with great love in it.
Political stability was at most a factor in assessing developing countries or Russia. It is now also an issue in Western democracies.
I beg my reader to consider the "evidence" I provide for my case and perhaps feel persuaded as a result. Beyond that I make no claim.
Responding to climate change will become the obsession of the next decade in much the same way terrorism was this decade's obsession.
Our destiny is to be so intimately united with God that, as the mystics say, we not only see God's face but also see with God's face.
Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than a machine?
The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.
Like, people are less likely to invest in their retirement when they have more options in their 401K plans than when they have fewer.
What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human meaning?
Maybe because I had a sister with a disability I was already sensitised to and fascinated by people who think or develop differently.
The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.
The ACA is an ugly patch on an ugly system - and I don't think it's worth mentioning in the context of price or quality transparency.
Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.
The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.
Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out what we ought to do.
It seems to me self-evident that it is worthwhile to understand the best thoughts of the past, to appropriate them, to criticize them.
If you have a lot of data and you want to create value from that data, one of the things you might consider is building up an AI team.
The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.
Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'
The mindset ideas were developed as a counter to the self-esteem movement of blanketing everyone with praise, whether deserved or not.
There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility
The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.
It is tempting to ascribe Katrina, Rita and now Wilma to global warming effects, but I am not sure that would pass statistical muster.
Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.