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I want you out in the hallway, against the far wall in single file, ready to move, in fifteen. Drop your fartsack, Ratliff.

How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?

the pain of losing a dollar is far more powerful than the pleasure of winning a dollar.

an unknown and forgotten treasure of the earliest Christians, a manual for living used by the generation of Jesus followers immediately after the apostles.

My dad is shagging your aunt, probably right now. That makes us almost family.

Men as a class appear to be "at risk," maybe even at high risk.

You create a file called user.rb in the /models directory:

It is how we respond to loss that matters. That response will largely determine the quality, the direction, and the impact of our lives.

The bigoted, the narrow minded, the stubborn, and the perpetually optimistic have all stopped learning.

In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic acid to the clitoris an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement.

The good that may come out of the loss does not erase its badness or excuse the wrong done. Nothing can do that.

Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome.

Time and again, we let the fear of loss overpower rational decision-making and often make ourselves worse off just to avoid a potential loss. Psychologists call this loss aversion, and it means we oft...

Into the Volcano (Wood 2008) holds out the promise of

I write down the three measurements which Lou and I agreed are central to knowing if the company is making money: net profit, ROI and cash flow.

Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions.

But she finally had the good sense to see that a long, dull and predictable future was an expensive price to pay for the satisfaction of a passing sexual attraction.

A popular management term used to describe efficiency is called "working smart." We are told that if we work smart instead of hard, we will be more productive. But if we do work "smart" then we are li...

Self-knowledge liberates us from the frustration of ignorance, while simultaneously nurturing and supporting our capacity for intelligence. Objectivity

Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a bracelet of bright hair about the bone.