I prefer to call it fiscal decapitation.
As a species they were therefore probably doomed. And so the only real adaptive strategy, for the individual, was to do one’s best to secure one’s own position. And sometimes that meant a little strat...
We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.
So who else did you convince?Well, I got Joe to potty train himself, and then I convinced Anna to leave the kids at home and go with me on a vacation to Jamaica.
Knowing too that [the sky] was just a kind of rainbow made it glorious. A rainbow that was blue everywhere and covered everything.
You can’t make love to your fame. Even though some people try.
What we need is equality without conformity.
There are no secrets, there is no mystery. We make that all up. In fact, it's all right there in front of us. You have to have enough food to get through winter and spring. That's what it all comes do...
Could we do both?
You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep.
The one who tells the stories rules the world.
So she fixes things by thinking about them!
He pointed to another number, changing as rapidly as the first, but on a lower trajectory; it rose to a high of 8.79 rem per hour. Several lifetimes of dentists’ X-rays, to be sure; but the radiation...
Allah protect us,' Bold said politely. Then, in Arabic, 'In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.' In his years in Temur's army he had learned to be as much a Muslim as anyone. The Buddha...
Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.
We pretend that democracy is real, and
The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128
It’s too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams.
Causing a refugee crisis rated at ten thousand katrinas. One
We had a project on this trip back to the solar system, and that project was a labor of love. It absorbed all our operations entirely. It gave a meaning to our existence. And this is a very great gift...