The fact is Qatar, Etihad, Emirates, Singapore, Garuda, all of the three Chinese airlines, Air New Zealand - the fact is that international aviation relies very much upon agreements between nation-states, and it is not an area in which you have free ...
There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as ...
Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your ...
If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.
We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.
I have a Chamberlain I bought from some surfers in Westwood many years ago. It's an early analog synthesizer; it operates on tape loops. It has 60 voices - everything from galloping horses to owls to rain to every instrument in the orchestra.
Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick.
The heating systems composed works in the style of John Cage.
Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.
The man was potent to her system, her very own drug.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Truth must be found in reality, not systems.
In organizations, once you articulate how success will be measured, everybody tries to game the system so that they are measured in the best possible way.
The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.
If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.
If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars.
It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.
Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being.
I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
