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.....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.
Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.
Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.
Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?
I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.
The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.
Don’t ever make the mistake of telling God that you have nothing to offer. That simply is not true. God does not create any junk.
All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.
My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.
History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
The comic world has its own limitations, as everything does. I adore it, I respect it, but it's not going to take over all of me.
You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.
If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?
For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.
The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.
When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.
Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.
A person does not hear sound only through the ears; he hears sound through every pore of his body. It permeates the entire being.
Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.
Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.
Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.
People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.
Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.
Whatever does not exist in the body can't be found in the universe, and whatever exists in the universe can be found in the body.
Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who do not value the Brazilian democracy.
I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.
We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution.
You, me...we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours....And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.
My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?
That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.
I got Greg Aronowitz, who does [ Felicia Day] sets, to do mine as well, and he's just amazing. He can work miracles with nothing.
The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.
California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.
When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.
If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
I don't think saying "I was wrong here, I was wrong there" absolves you of anything particularly, nor does it get you into heaven.
From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.
You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.
The teenagers aren't all bad. I love 'em if nobody else does. There ain't nothing wrong with young people. Jus' quit lyin' to 'em.
Coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image.
On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?
God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us.
Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
Roger Federer moves like a whisper and executes like a wrecking ball. It is simply impossible to explain how he does what he does.
A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?' Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress.