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| 8d00db0 | More than any other nation, the United States has been almost constantly involved in armed conflict and, through military alliances, has used war as a means of resolving international and local disputes. Since the birth of the United Nations, we have seen American forces involved in combat in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Greece, Grenada, Haiti, Iraq, Korea, Kosovo, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Nicarag.. | Jimmy Carter | ||
| eea3fdb | I realize that violence is not more prevalent today than in previous periods of human history, but there is a difference. We have seen visionary standards adopted by the global community that espouse peace and human rights, and the globalization of information ensures that the violation of these principles of nonviolence by a powerful and admired democracy tends to resonate throughout the world community. We should have advanced much furthe.. | women-s-rights | Jimmy Carter | |
| bebb8c6 | It is interesting to note that an overwhelming majority of citizens in the world's three largest democracies have different religions: India (81 percent Hindu), the United States (76 percent Christian), and Indonesia (87 percent Muslim). Two of them have elected women as leaders of their government. | leaders leadership president women | Jimmy Carter | |
| 819d135 | The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| e533709 | The phenomenon of relative deprivation applied to education is called--appropriately enough--the "Big Fish-Little Pond Effect." The more elite an educational institution is, the worse students feel about their own academic abilities." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 6dc78e3 | Of course, kids don't always like repetition. Whatever they are watching has to be complex enough to allow, upon repeated exposure, for deeper and deeper levels of comprehension. At the same time, it can't be so complex that the first time around it baffles the children and turns them off. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 9c18ac5 | We all want to believe that the key to making an impact on someone lies with the inherent quality of the ideas we present. But in none of these cases did anyone substantially alter the content of what they were saying. Instead, they tipped the message by tinkering, on the margin, with the presentation of their ideas,..... | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 1bde40e | What Hartshorne and May concluded, then, is that something like honesty isn't a fundamental trait, or what they called a "unified" trait. A trait like honesty, they concluded, is considerably influenced by the situation." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| c43a780 | Stories about suicides resulted in an increase in single-car crashes where the victim was the driver. Stories about suicide-murders resulted in an increase in multiple-car crashes in which the victims included both drivers and passengers. Stories about young people committing suicide resulted in more traffic fatalities involving young people. Stories about older people committing suicide resulted in more traffic fatalities involving older p.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| a6b491f | Those three things -- autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward -- are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. It is not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether our work fulfills us. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| a44c387 | According to research done by Mitchell Chang of the University of California, the likelihood of someone completing a STEM degree--all things being equal--rises by 2 percentage points for every 10-point decrease in the university's average SAT score.4 The smarter your peers, the dumber you feel; the dumber you feel, the more likely you are to drop out of science. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 27bb263 | Eric Hanushek, an economist at Stanford, estimates that the students of a very bad teacher will learn, on average, half a year's worth of material in one school year. The students in the class of a very good teacher will learn a year and a half's worth of material. That difference amounts to a year's worth of learning in a single year. Teacher effects dwarf school effects: your child is actually better off in a bad school with an excellent .. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| f67cdd2 | People don't rise from nothing. We do owe something to parentage and patronage. The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 80f4c11 | Students who attend what they considered to be their first-choice school were less likely to persist in a biomedical or behavioral science major," they write. You think you want to go to the fanciest school you can. You don't." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| f5345c7 | In the past generation, the American educational system has decided not to seek the very best teachers, give them lots of kids to teach, and pay them more--which would help children the most. It has decided to hire every teacher it can get its hands on and pay them less. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| aadd0ee | In the end, Tipping Points are a reaffirmation of the potential for change and the power of intelligent action. Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push--in just the right place--it can be tipped. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 090aa7a | If a revolution is not accessible, tangible, and replicable, how on earth can it be a revolution? | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| d52b70a | the simplest way that respect is communicated is through tone of voice, | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 5bff655 | Gottman has found, in fact, that the presence of contempt in a marriage can even predict such things as how many colds a husband or a wife gets; in other words, having someone you love express contempt toward you is so stressful that it begins to affect the functioning of your immune system. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| f461f74 | It's challenging, it's not hopeless. You have to come up with something. You have to figure out a way to help them, because people must have hope to live. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 41ef029 | Next time you meet a doctor, and you sit down in his office and he starts to talk, if you have the sense that he isn't listening to you, that he's talking down to you, and that he isn't treating you with respect, listen to that feeling. You have thin-sliced him and found him wanting. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| a018cd4 | The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 7200f30 | the Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 673ae9c | We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that--sometimes--we're better off that way. 1. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 2247d92 | A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive - and saves her friendship, her marriage, and her sanity. The world is turned upside down. | difficult-decisions forgiveness life power powerful-women strength wisdom women women-in-power | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| 185cc73 | A vervet, in other words, is very good at processing certain kinds of vervetish information, but not so good at processing other kinds of information. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 1df0976 | In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller. | assumptions prejudice | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| d80ec13 | Some of us, after all, are very good at expressing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us. Psychologists call these people "senders." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| b1045d5 | when we understand how much culture and history and the world outside of the individual matter to professional success--then ... We have a way to successes out of the unsucessful. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 761f841 | the tallest oak in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn; it is the tallest also because no other trees blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich, no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling, and no lumberjack cut it down before it matured. We | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 9e97952 | The Power of Context is an environmental argument. It says that behavior is a function of social context. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 06d3388 | People are in one of two states in a relationship. The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotions overrides irritability. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| fa9bd46 | How do you know if you're making the right decision? Easy. Just like two and two always add up to four, kindness and forgiveness is always right, hate and revenge is always wrong. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| f413a96 | The little girl knew if she bit any member of her family, they would get rabies too, and she died without ever having been petted. I cried so hard Mrs. Underwood had to take me to the school nurse. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| abbd354 | Damn, I'm Miss Mississippi! | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 8179a2d | By the way, Boots died and Opal says she hopes you're satisfied. | cat dot-weems newsletter opal | Fannie Flagg | |
| dce553a | Idgie smiled back at her and looked up into the clear blue sky that reflected in her eyes and she was as happy as anybody who is in love in the summertime can be. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 329723c | Just think, Ruth, I never did it for anybody else before. Now nobody in the whole world knows I can do that but you. I just wanted us to have a secret together, that's all. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 7133c4d | I was sitting on the roof, and she didn't see me. I sit on the roof a lot. People never think to look up. | life-lessons | Fannie Flagg | |
| c832b7a | You know, it's funny what you'll miss when you're away from home. Now me, I miss the smell of coffee ... and bacon frying in the morning. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 1e603c0 | And, no, they haven't done it." I put him out of his misery. "Done what?" asks Noah. "Put the sausage in the cupcake," says Lorcan, draining his coffee. "Lorcan!" I snap. "Don't say things like that!" Noah explodes with laughter. "Put the sausage in the cupcake!" he crows. "The sausage in the cupcake!" Great. I glare at Lorcan, who stares back, unmoved. And, anyway, cupcake? I've never heard it called that." | wedding-night | Sophie Kinsella | |
| 82a3392 | Mum always says the right thing. She always makes everything better. | mother mum parent | Sophie Kinsella | |
| ed432e8 | Becky . . ." Luke looks at me carefully. "Have you ever been on a horse in your life?" "Yes! Of course I have!" Once. When I was ten. And I fell off. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 5705c48 | Why did he have to choose tonight to turn into the perfect husband? | Sophie Kinsella |