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Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.
Technology makes the world a new place.
My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.
No one disputes that online businesses offer much more variety than their analog counterparts.
As soon as your brain starts telling you that you can't have a tree that is blue then you stop being able to paint trees.
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.
With 'Scratch,' you create computer programs by snapping together graphical programming blocks, much like LEGO bricks, without any of the obscure syntax and punctuation of traditional programming languages. After creating an interactive 'Scratch' project, you can share it on the 'Scratch' website, just as you would share videos on YouTube.
Be yourself, but always your better self.
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.
The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.
You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will.
The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.
Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.
Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world.
I have always put a lot of effort into the way I present myself; just ask my children or students!
There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.
You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.
If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.
Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.
Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.
The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
It can connect us to memories. It can influence our mood and our responses to problems we might face.
Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Next time you open the paper, and you see an intellectual property decision, a telecoms decision, it's not about something small and technical. It is about the future of the freedom to be as social beings with each other, and the way information, knowledge and culture will be produced.
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition.
Speak up. You have to project! If people can't hear you, it doesn't matter what you say.
Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.
When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.
Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea.
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.
If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven.
I have been married to Russell Ford since 2002, and we have two children.
If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.
Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn, as much as he please; he will never know any of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his mind. Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?
If we expect kids to be losers they will be losers; if we expect them to be winners they will be winners. They rise, or fall, to the level of the expectations of those around them, especially their parents and their teachers.
We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.
One of the most commonly overlooked spiritual practices is daring to be completely honest with everyone you encounter. Some may say others cannot handle their honesty, but true honesty is not a strategy or a weapon of any kind. It is the willingness to be open and absolutely transparent in sharing how any moment feels in your heart. It has nothing to do with confrontation, accusation, or any form of blame. True honesty is the willingness to stand completely exposed, allowing the world to do what it may, and say what it will, only so you may know who you are - beyond all ideas.
You are always wanting miracles; but God sows miracles by handfuls under your feet, and yet you still have people who deny their existence.
Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.
Process innovation is different from product innovation. It's about how do you create a new product or develop a new product or manufacture a new product, but not a new product itself?
The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world.
The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.
If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
If we're going to get this country out of its current energy situation, we can't just conserve our way out; we can't just drill our way out; we can't bomb our way out. We're going to do it the old-fashioned American way, we're going to invent our way out, working together.
I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.
