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Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.
'Doctor Who' began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on the sofa.
Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice.
Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them.
Fat is mainstream, which is why everyone has become complacent. What used to be considered pudgy before isn't even worthy of a comment today.
Debtors will seek to cancel their debts. Creditors will try to collect, and the more they succeed, the more they will impoverish the economy.
Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.
Our entire political system is financed by wealthy private interests buying politicians and making sure the rules are written in their favor.
It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.
As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.
People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.
Institutions are increasingly persuaded that political maneuvering is more important than scientific justification in securing federal funds.
Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons.
Your job as a leader is to try to inspire them to do more work than they've ever done in their life under conditions that they can't imagine.
All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.
As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.
There are respectful, considerate things that can be done in life that will be appreciated by the recipient, and only good things can result.
A wide range of social, collective phenomena can be made to emerge from the interactions of autonomous agents operating to simple local rules
If you're constantly stimulated by being called away to the buzzing and the excitement of what's on your phone, solitude seems kind of scary.
If we can accept as true that life circumstances are not the keys to happiness, we'll be greatly empowered to pursue happiness for ourselves.
It was in 'Esquire' in the 1970s that I first learned Nora Ephron's recipe for borscht - certainly an editorial first for that manly magazine.
If you ever go bar hopping, who do you want to take with you? You want a slightly uglier version of yourself. Similar ... but slightly uglier.
The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
The amount of energy saved by switching off the phone charger is exactly the same as the energy used by driving an average car for one second.
All the proffered evidence that America was attacked by Muslims on 9/11, when subjected to critical scrutiny, appears to have been fabricated.
Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.
Back when the powerful 19th-century senator Henry Clay was called 'the great compromiser,' achieving a compromise really was considered great.
I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.
First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.
What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke.
[Adolf] Hitler needed, he didn't want to kill Jews, he wanted to expel German Jews, and therefore it's not entirely corroborating your theory.
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has done very little."
What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.
Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.
White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.
A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence.
Give yourself permission to dream. Fuel your kids' dreams too. Once in a while, that might even mean letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.
We have a large pool of talented and educated women, and yet workplaces haven't necessarily changed to accommodate the reality of their lives.
Eat better or work out more, and youll see the benefits weeks, months or years down the road. Sleep more, and youll see the benefits tomorrow.
Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.
These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.
People are the least creative when fighting the clock... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.
The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.
I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.
Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.
If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.