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if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

They just posture and pontificate. Nobody tests. Nobody does field research. Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to...

Alone, Malcolm unrolled the strip of paper that had come with the sample. It was a piece of paper torn from a yellow legal pad. In block printing, it said:I WAS RIGHT AND YOU WERE WRONG.

but then where would one end if one started to compose a list of the wrongs that this world had seen? Better perhaps, thought Mma Ramotswe, to make a list of those things that were right with the...

Without delay, echoed Charlie. Those are very good words, I think. Without delay. Please will you pay my bill without delay. Please leave without delay. Please improve your attitude without delay…...

But I'm afraid you have it backward. It is better to live on one's feet than die on one's knees. That is the way the saying goes.

Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.'Yossarian knew...

The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail…. Whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life.

Since speed and confidence are the traits of success we are taught to strive with, it takes added courage to welcome time and humility into our lives.

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, Or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, But because it never forgot what it could do. -NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I was recently in San...

for the last fifteen years we have been under the control of an entirely new complex, far more powerful and far more pervasive. I call it the politico-legal-media complex. The PLM. And

Just as a vine or shrub-no matter how often it is cut back-will keep growing to the light, the human heart-no matter how often it is cut-can reassert its impulse to love.

which are plainly adapted to that end

Monroe's presidency made poor men rich, turned political allies into friends, and united a divided people as no president had done since Washington.

I think it's best for us to face up to our own mistakes, she

It is an absurd expression of romantic hope.

Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.

Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not...

And where is home? Is it where we begin or where we end up? Is it where we long to be or where life puts us to make good use of our gifts?

Respect," he declared, "forms the basis of every negotiation with these powers. The respect which one power has for another, is in the exact proportion of the means which they respectively have of...

At the end of June 1783, Monroe's first year of government service came to an end. Although he had accomplished nothing, he had done no less than his colleagues - which is exactly what Virginia...

By March 1766, colonist boycotts had proved so costly to British merchants that Parliament repealed the stamp tax without having collected a single penny.

He believed the future of the nation was at stake, and he returned day after day to fight his war against the "slaveocracy." And Quincy voters sent him back to Congress again and again. Louisa fretted...

Whatever is held and listened to will show us where it lives in the world and in us.

Daniel Shays, a farmer struggling to keep his property, convinced neighbors that Boston legislators were colluding with judges and lawyers to raise property taxes and foreclose when farmers found it...

A change of oil…yes, that was what we all needed from time to time, whether we were an engine or a person. And there were other similarities to be explored. Engines had to be handled gently, as did...

I have great respect for the corrosive influence of bias, systematic distortions of thought, the power of rationalization, the guises of self-interest, and the inevitability of unintended...

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. -MARK TWAIN

All that has happened is that the public has adjusted to incoherence and been amused into indifference.

Fearful people do not want to sit with broken people because they don't want to be slowed down - don't want to look at what is broken in themselves...When we dare to hold those forced to the ground,...

And to Virginia governor Edmund Randolph, who also favored a bill of rights, he explained, The human race is too apt to rush from one extreme to another.… For now, the cry is power; give Congress...

America is on the point of bursting into flames

These days people seemed to suggest that you should talk about everything, even those things that people never talked about in the past, but did this make life any easier? She was not sure. In fact,...