Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible.
Obama fans become more and more glum that he keeps flubbing the very role he was expected to be so good at: Therapist to the nation. The Great Comforter.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.
I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.
I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.
The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and people fear what they don't understand.
Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.
My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.
Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.
Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of the invasion of Kuwait, and of the subsequent era of sanctions culminating in the current invasion.
Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.
Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.
