I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprisingly of all, that I could carry it. That I could bear the unbearable. These realizations about my physical, material life couldn't help but spill over into the ...
The appeal to the intellectually insecure is also more important than it might seem. Because economics touches so much of life, everyone wants to have an opinion. Yet the kind of economics covered in the textbooks is a technical subject that many peo...
Why Cults Terrorize and Kill Children – LLOYD DEMAUSE The Journal of Psychohistory 21 (4) 1994 "Extending these local figures to a national estimate would easily mean tens of thousands of cult victims per year reporting, plus undoubtedly more who d...
Stalin was the most audible and powerful spokesman in the campaign against what he contemptuously called uravnilovka (leveling). His hostility - voiced in sarcastic and dismissive terms - was so deep and so clearly enunciated that it rapidly became s...
As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were all men who insisted upon being themselves and who refused to truckle to the people. With each succeeding generatio...
There are people everywhere who form a Fourth World, or a diaspora of their own. They are the lordly ones! They come in all colors. They can be Christians or Hindus or Muslims or Jews or pagans or atheists. They can be young or old, men or women, sol...
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.
The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.
The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
Theodore: She's not just a computer.
Politics is the science of urgencies.
Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.
The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.
At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Valentino made my day suit for the wedding of Paloma Picasso in Paris.
Theodore Faron: They got me.
They seem not to listen to what I have to say, so I'm going to quit.
