Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.
We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.
American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.
My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.
People don't like it, but inevitably we need to think about both the costs and the benefits of health care. We cannot avoid the financial consequences.
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.
No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.
But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion.
Tax incentives might spur hiring in the short run, but how lasting are those gains if the jobs expire with the tax credits and they come at the expense of investing in the new technologies of the future?
What the American public thinks is very important to the future of global health. Many people are moved by the idea that there is unnecessary suffering in the world, and we could do a lot to stop it. We have the technologies necessary to stop most of...
If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.
As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.
From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.
The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.
We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
