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I am the youngest of three girls. My first linguistics book was a study of 'New York Jewish conversational style'. That was my dissertation.
I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here.
This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.
That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.
Veganism is not a limitation in any way; it's an expansion of your love, your commitment to nonviolence, and your belief in justice for all.
There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please go vegan.
Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy
Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors.
A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator.
When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats.
Workers are not being exploited. But if their share of growth doesn't increase, this could be a potential cause of social tension worldwide.
People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!
Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.
The NYPD was ubiquitous. They were always around Malcolm X. Whenever Malcolm spoke, there would be one or two dozen cops all over the place.
Healthy, sustainable food production methods give us food that is nutritionally better and with fewer pesticides, antibiotics, and hormones.
Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members.
If you increase living standards, you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States.
I think we're in the take-the-money-and-run stage of the economy. So the banks may go under, but the bankers, who make the policy, clean up.
You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, that are employing people and that are growing.
Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention or control.
For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them.
I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did.
Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.
The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.
When you fail at something, the best thing to do is think back to your successes, and try to replicate whatever you did to make them happen.
The Prophet, peace be on him, presents all the possibilities of the human state in perfection. Now, a part of that of course is love of God.
It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.
The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.
Empathy is about two people - two people meeting, getting to know each other and tuning in to what the other person is thinking and feeling.
When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.
We can treat human responses to cognitions as involving law-like connections grounded on free choices which show themselves in our character.
I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
This fraternity... makes it possible... for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings.
To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.
The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.
[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm.
For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.
I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.
My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.
The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.
To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of respect. It makes people feel valued.
Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.
[Mujahedeen], by the way, don't represent Islam in any formal sense. They're not imams or sheiks. They are self-appointed warriors for Islam.
More people are aware of the consequences of hatred. People are aware. Therefore more people are engaged in fighting ... racism and so forth.
Every sentient being values her/his life even if no one else does. That is what is meant by saying that the lives of all have inherent value.
I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.
Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.