The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that ther...
Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is the business of genes to program brains in advance so that on average they take decisions that pay off. The currency used in the c...
If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn't make it so. Words and thoughts don’t change anything. Language and reality are kept strictly apart — reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn't care what you t...
But imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole...
Captain von Trapp: Fraulein Maria, did I or did I not say that bedtime is to be strictly observed in this household? Maria: Yes, well the children were scared of the thunderstorm and... You did, sir. Captain von Trapp: And do you or do you not have t...
...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...
The Bible is God speaking to mankind. The more you read the Bible, the more you will hear God speaking to you.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
Think about it this way--our actions speak truth our words cannot.
Whenever Papa said, 'Jump,' I was always the first one in the air.
We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.
Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.
Because if you didn’t speak your truth, there was always something that would speak it for you that much louder.
And for once a band of thieves in ripped up jeans got to rule the world
In the land of Gibberish, the man who makes sense, the man who speaks clearly, clearly speaks nonsense.
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
There is a difference between speaking the truth in love and judging someone hypocritically...make sure you know the difference before you speak!
We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.
When a wise woman speaks, her words are gracious. Ask God to help you find words that speak life to those around you.
