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Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.
People are adamant learning is not just looking at a Google page. But it is. Learning is looking at Google pages. What is wrong with that?
If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.
I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.
People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself.
Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.
If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid.
The chivalrous man who holds a door open or signals a woman to go ahead of him when he's driving is negotiating both status and connection.
We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.
Note that there was no claim for these attacks [on 9/11]. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a silent piece of terror.
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.
Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.
Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society.
A bunch of individuals do the same thing because they learned from watching each other or somebody else. That's what we would call culture.
There's an old saying that nothing good happens fast. I don't know if that's altogether true, but it does have some bearing on Bible study.
Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career.
We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.
My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away.
Our team at Duolingo is really cohesive, but this did not just happen. I made a concerted effort to hire people who are going to play nice.
The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question.
Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts-it's able to endure temptations-bec ause it faces them, not because it pretends they're not there.
Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.
People charged with drug offenses, though, are typically poor people of color. They are routinely charged with felonies and sent to prison.
Act as if the future of the universe depends on what you do, while laughing at yourself for thinking that your actions make any difference.
Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most people?'"
I've been lucky. I've been at a place that's a meritocracy. It doesn't really matter that much what your gender is if you do the work well.
Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.
We invent our technologies and then we turn around and use our technologies to reinvent ourselves as individuals, communities and cultures.
Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.
It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.
There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation.
The problem of how to make the Internet advertising friendly bewildered and obsessed Madison Avenue for much of the 1990s. Advertising won.
Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.
The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.
[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.
To the extent that Israel does face threats, like from say Hamas or Hezbollah, those are threats that do not jeopardise Israel's existence.
We have many identities, and we can't be authentic to them all. The best we can do is be sincere in our efforts to earn the values we claim.
The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.
The very idea of "managing" a forest in the first place is oxymoronic, because a forest is an ecosystem that is by definition self-managing.
[Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.
I think when you see that the status quo creates pain and anguish and suffering, what I am most afraid of is that things will stay the same.
In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue a truly disruptive strategy.
Once we start thinking of ourselves as polluted, there is not much incentive to behave well, and the trip down the slippery slope is likely.
Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.
Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.
There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.
Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.
Many men honestly do not know what women want, and women honestly do not know why men find what they want so hard to comprehend and deliver.