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When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.
Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new contexts.
[Alex] Haley's objective was quite different. Haley was a republican. He was an integrationist. He was very opposed to black nationalism.
Textbooks don't teach people how to avoid paying any income tax. But that's what an army of tax lawyers and corporate tax accountants do.
Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.
Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950.
I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.
We're created in God's image, but our souls or spirits are not offshoots of God's own Spirit - as New Age teachers would have us believe.
We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.
Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.
My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. See language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.
Heaven is not a club we enter. Heaven is a state we attain, in accordance with our “capacity to receive” a blessed and sanctified nature.
After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.
Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and on politics.
We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.
His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.
I did most of my Ph.D. in Washington. They used to bring black kids through the lab for tours, and I was one of the few black researchers.
The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.
Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.
But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently .
Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed
The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.
Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.
The study of gender and language might seem at first to be a narrowly focused field, but it is actually as interdisciplinary as they come.
Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain
I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.
By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.
If you know a lot about something and apply that information to a vote that matches your policy preferences, your opinion quality is high.
The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.
I've always spent money on books. I've always enjoyed handling books - the size, the format. I feel very strongly about original ephemera.
I watch a lot of TV. That's how I spend most of my time outside of work. If I had more time, I would fill it 100 percent with watching TV.
These enthusiasts often like to hang signs that say "Gone Fishin'" or "Gone Huntin'". But what these slogans really mean is "Gone Killing.
For many, whether they go to prison or not is far less about the choices they make and far more about what kind of cage they're born into.
Most people seem to assume that this dramatic surge in imprisonment was due to a corresponding surge in crime, particularly violent crime.
Some of our system of mass incarceration really has to be traced back to the law-and-order movement that began in the 1950s, in the 1960s.
I was very much taken with carbon fibers because they seemed like the perfect medium to explore transport studies in carbon-based systems.
Don't discount the power of your words. The thought that they might cause unnecessary hurt or discomfort should inform every conversation.
Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.
Brick walls let us prove how badly we want our dream and they stop those who don't want it enough. Brick walls let us show our dedication.
Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
We will use the actions of others to decide on proper behavior for ourselves, especially when we view those others as similar to ourselves
The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class.
... people are capable of more than their organizational positions ever give them the tools or the time or the opportunity to demonstrate.
Power is America's last dirty word. It is easier to talk about money - and much easier to talk about sex - than it is to talk about power.
As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community.
It is safe to say that when people are short on cash, they might be less productive at work, be worse parents, and have less self-control.
We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.
I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.