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I've been at the very bottom of poverty, and it's not so bad. It's even kind of interesting. You can live there with a certain amount of style.
Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition overweighted.
Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.
As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that.
The best simpleminded test of expertise in a particular area is an ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.
Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth.
If we ... capitalize on the very real strengths of older people, then added years of life can dramatically improve quality of life at all ages.
You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it?
I worked on a number of projects that were used by millions of people and that also served as inspiration to what we now call "crowd-sourcing."
I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman.
There's a basic rule of thumb that the more a culture oppresses women, or oppresses anyone, the more culturally preoccupied they are with that.
Because standard unemployment reports continue to exclude prisoners, we have been treated to a highly misleading picture of black unemployment.
For a person to become deeply involved in any activity it is essential that he knows precisely what tasks he must accomplish, moment by moment.
Every president, Democratic or Republican, simply works on the supposition that it's better to keep jobs in America than let them go to Mexico.
Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
As such the meaning of hegemony is subject to varying interpretations depending on how the historical role of the United States is interpreted.
Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--th e rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.
Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.
In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.
We are 25 years too late. If the object is to avoid dangerous change, we've already had it. The object now is to avoid really dangerous change.
In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.
Consequentialist theories begin with a very simple and undoubtedly valid point: Every action aims at a future end, and is seen as a means to it.
I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.
The first thing I did [in Michigan] was join a picket line of a pizzeria in Ann Harbor in 1963 that didn't allow African Americans to eat there.
It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.
Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze; Like children with violets playing, In the shade of the whispering trees.
Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-
The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.
The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness.
We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.
Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.
The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states.
Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.
Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.
Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now with climate change, yet we dither.
Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.
The best path to power combines two things: 1) a path that not many are taking and 2) something that you are capable and comfortable with doing.
When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.
Many photographers are consumed with the idea of making beautiful contact sheets. I am far more interested in making the best final print I can.
Trump's junk economics is the illusion that if we cut the taxes on the wealthiest brackets, it'll all trickle down. But it doesn't trickle down.
The United States Government has fought against creation of an international court to adjudicate the ability of national economies to pay debts.
The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.
The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage.
Because of empathy, we care more for, and devote far more resources to, someone who is familiar, from our country or our group, than a stranger.