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Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.
Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.
How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm.
God seems to throw Himself on the side of the man who knows exactly what he wants, if he is determined to get JUST THAT!
The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.
I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.
Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.
Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.
Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.
Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?
I tell you this: The purpose of life is not to please God. The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are.
I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.
People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.
We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.
When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It’s scientific. That’s how I want to be remembered. I want to shine.
He was alone in the darkness once more, but the darkness became brighter and brighter until it was burning like the sun.
Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough.
Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.
If people let other people alone, people would be better off. It's always people that screw things up for people anyway.
What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly.
The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Learn from both your mistakes and successes because if you learn only from your mistakes you will only learn more errors
Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.
If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
There's no grander sight in the world than that of a person fired with a great purpose, dominated by one unwavering aim.
Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.
Over Kyle's shoulder she could see grandpa, looking like a cross between a grizzly bear and a giant pissed-off blowfish.
Not that the path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique." -Zoey
I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. I am the first one to admit I was a novelty.
Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'
Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.
I will always have fears, but I need not be my fears, for I have other places within myself from which to speak and act.
... God is going to judge righteously... . what did each one do in relation to what he or she knew to be right of wrong?
I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.
All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.
It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.
Personally i prefer the MX RR and a stylized name, but i was trying to solve the problem rather than create an industry.
Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But it doesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me.
This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.
Understanding future warfare is the most important responsibility of those who must defend a nation from future enemies!
More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.
The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.