Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain nee...
Planning. Short-term memory. Attention. At first glance, these three frontal lobe functions can seem like diverse activities that just happen to be packed into the same brain region. But on closer inspection it turns out that they are facets of the s...
I believe that human beings are designed to be physically active and that not doing so creates energy imbalances within the body that ultimately contribute to obesity and other health problems. As evidence, over 500,000 people die each year from dise...
It is clear that Christianity does not exclude any of the ordinary human activities. St. Paul tells people to get on with their jobs. He even assumes that Christians may go to dinner parties, and, what is more, dinner parties given by pagans…Christ...
Nash: I find you attractive. Your aggressive moves toward me... indicate that you feel the same way. But still, ritual requires that we continue with a number of platonic activities... before we have sex. I am proceeding with these activities, but in...
The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don't...
I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, l...
It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.
A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
[Companies] mistook a lack of competition for success.
The political system, it’s a shame it’s a sham.
Political life is best treated with antibiotics.
I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.
It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.
I appeal to people all across the political spectrum.
There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.
The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.
Judges are appointed often through the political process.
It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
