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A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance...Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible.
If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.
Eat better or work out more, and you'll see the benefits weeks, months or years down the road. Sleep more, and you'll see the benefits tomorrow.
here's certain things that are similar to cats and dogs. Dogs are just hyper social and they have a want to please you way more than a cat does.
The most important thing in a shelter is that volunteers, especially with dogs, come in everyday, take that pet out for an hour of quality time.
It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.
The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.
Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.
Fichte thinks that the mutual recognition of one another as free beings belongs among the transcendental conditions of self-consciousness itself.
What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.
People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away.
Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.
For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.
For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication.
We don't actually know if the person who wrote the Gospel of John had a written copy of Thomas because we don't know exactly when it was written.
In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.
Even if plants were sentient, veganism would still be a moral imperative given that it takes many pounds of plants to produce one pound of flesh.
How about "diamonds are a girl's best friends"? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds.
You stimulate the neo-cortex, it produces a symphony. But it's not just a symphony of perception. It's a symphony of your universe. Your reality.
I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.
Producing is important because if there is no one making the tunes, there is nothing for the DJs to play, and nothing for the people to dance to.
Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us.
I loved 'Gladiator,' and I thought its depiction of gladiatorial combat, although it was an aggrandizing picture, was cleverly and expertly done.
Nationwide, 1 in 3 black men can expect to serve time behind bars, but the rates are far higher in segregated and impoverished black communities.
It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.
A city should decide where it doesn't want to develop, saving at least some of the canyons and hillsides and wetlands from the bulldozer's blade.
You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.
My interest in science had many roots. Some came from my mother as she finished her B.A. degree studies in college while I was in my early teens.
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.
The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd.
I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope.
What's interesting is that the way we go about finding our marriage partners today is quite different from the way it used to be in this culture.
I didn't really give them anymore than one choice, soda or no soda. They didn't... whereas we put a lot of stock in the differences between soda.
We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It’s not about making learning happen; it’s about letting it happen.
I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.
I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills.
If you get a little kitty and he's down on the bottom, and he's laying on his chest, you know tucked up underneath, then that cat is not relaxed.
Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.
I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.
Fichte would identify all states of our minds with states of our body - perhaps not merely of our brain, but the whole body as an acting organism.
Both of my girls have very high self-esteem because they were both able to master certain things; I should think that's good for their confidence.
We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.
There was a sense of palpable relief that George [W.] Bush was leaving and that the Republicans had slipped back and that was a wonderful feeling.
Brands communicate in two directions: they help us tell other people something about ourselves, but they also help us form ideas about who we are.
If all humans disappeared today ,the earth would start improving tomorrow.If all the ants disappeared today ,the earth would start dying tomorrow.
The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society.