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| 53ffc46 | More pertinent, however, is that capitalism tends to stultify the worker's creativity, his human urge for self-expression, freedom, mutually respectful interaction with others, recognition of his self-determined sense of self, recognition of himself as a self rather than an object, a means to an end. Karl Marx called it "alienation." Capitalism alienates the worker--and the capitalist--from his "fundamental human need" for "self-fulfilling .. | Chris Wright | ||
| 460756b | I propose another explanation: The reason so many Americans have become alienated from government since the poll of 1964 is that government really has become more incompetent and really has become alienated from the public it is supposed to serve. Political cycles and political fashion have nothing to do with it. American government isn't what it used to be. | Charles Murray | ||
| 63eb856 | A new upper class that makes decisions affecting the lives of everyone else but increasingly doesn't know much about how everybody else lives is vulnerable to making mistakes. How vulnerable are you? | Charles Murray | ||
| 3b0fcb5 | Regardless of whether people have free will, human flourishing requires that they live in an environment in which they are treated as if they did. | leadership motivation | Charles Murray | |
| 412df09 | the most lovable of exceptional American qualities (is) our tradition of insisting that we are part of the middle class, even if we aren't, and of interacting with our fellow citizens as if we were all middle class. | culture humility | Charles Murray | |
| edd1884 | The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percent of the size of the labor force in 1960 to 5.3% in 2010. | motivation unemployment vocation welfare-state work | Charles Murray | |
| cf6d61e | Nice and good are different. Being nice involves immediate actions and immediate consequences--you give water to the thirsty and comfort to the afflicted right here, right now. Being good involves living in the world so that you contribute to the welfare of your fellow human beings. | Charles Murray | ||
| 439c9df | As I come to the end of my advice and send you off into the world, I have an alternative way for you to stay on the straight and narrow: periodically watch Groundhog Day. It was made long ago, in 1993, but it's still smart and funny, the chemistry between the stars (Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell) is terrific, and it has a happy ending. Groundhog Day is also a profound moral fable that deals with the most fundamental issues of virtue and h.. | Charles Murray | ||
| 8c4a1d6 | Changing the new upper class by force majeure won't work and isn't a good idea in any case. The new upper class will change only if its members decide that it is in the interest of themselves and of their families to change. And possibly also because they decide it is in the interest of the country they love. | Charles Murray | ||
| 45c1c8e | Humility is the proper estimate of oneself." CHARLES SPURGEON" | Andrew Murray | ||
| 560ce6a | I think that the species of oppression by which democratic nations are menaced is unlike anything that ever before existed in the world.... The supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shatt.. | Charles Murray | ||
| 6863d19 | Using which instead of that. That introduces essential clauses while which introduces nonessential clauses. Consider the sentence "Tools that have sharp edges can cause nasty cuts." If you remove the words "that have sharp edges," the sentence loses much of its meaning. The clause is essential. Now consider "Roses, which come in many colors, have thorns on their stems." You can remove "which come in many colors" and the meaning of the rest .. | Charles Murray | ||
| 541de6d | To notice a difference is to have an opinion about it--unless one refuses to think. And that is my ultimate objection to nonjudgmentalism. We can refuse to voice our judgments, but we cannot keep from having them unless we refuse to think about what is before our eyes. | Charles Murray | ||
| 63304fe | The scope of Trump's commitment to whiteness is matched only by the depth of popular intellectual disbelief in it. We are now being told that support for Trump's "Muslim ban," his scapegoating of immigrants, his defenses of police brutality are somehow the natural outgrowth of the cultural and economic gap between Lena Dunham's America and Jeff Foxworthy's. The collective verdict holds that the Democratic Party lost its way when it abandone.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 010d2f9 | I recognize that craving such an outward appearance is utterly prideful. The Spirit reminds me to find my identity in Christ, not in a facade of capability and certainly not in others' opinions of me. Oh, how difficult this is for an approval-addicted, over-achieving, "gee, I hope she likes me" kind of gal such as I. I must swim crosscurrent and make life choices, not for the crowd, but rather and rightly only--as my Bible-teacher friend We.. | Karen Ehman | ||
| d1d4097 | Your career is likely to bear more resemblance to that of a writer than that of an athlete or painter. You should look ahead to your forties as the time when you will be at your peak of creativity, technical proficiency, and energy, and also have enough phronesis to realize your potential. The more your field depends on good judgment that comes only from experience, the longer you can expect to sustain a high level of performance into your .. | Charles Murray | ||
| 096189b | In The Price of Admission, journalist Daniel Golden documents the ways in which elite schools manage to find room for the children of alums, big donors, celebrities, athletes, the elite college's own faculty, and wealthy parents whose estates might eventually make their heirs into big donors.20 | Charles Murray | ||
| 5e81fca | Many curmudgeons believe that a malady afflicts many of today's twenty-somethings: their sense of entitlement. It is their impression that too many of you think doing routine office tasks is beneath you, and your supervisors are insufficiently sensitive to your needs. Curmudgeons are also likely to think that you have a higher opinion of your abilities than your performance warrants. | Charles Murray | ||
| f70c329 | Good, because I don't understand anything at all. | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| 83623cc | The two most important words I ever wrote were on that first Wal-Mart sign: "Satisfaction Guaranteed." They're still up there, and they have made all the difference." | Sam Walton | ||
| 5ca08fb | Different isn't wrong. It's just different. | Karen Ehman | ||
| f6df0e8 | When brain areas aren't used enough, they atrophy. Isolation is bad for the brain. | Louann Brizendine | ||
| 7e73844 | the five-to-one rule: giving each other five compliments for every one critical remark. | Louann Brizendine | ||
| 34d14fb | When men live alone and become isolated--which they do more often than women--their daily routines can become repetitive habits that get deeply engraved into their brain circuits. Soon, if someone disrupts their routine, they get irritated because their brain's social-flexibility circuits are weakened from disuse | Louann Brizendine | ||
| 7284e71 | idea that the male is the default-model human still deeply pervades our culture. The male is considered simple; the female, complex. | Louann Brizendine | ||
| 6088170 | Many fathers who don't have daily hands-on contact may fail to form the strong daddy brain circuits required for parent-child synchrony. The environment for eventually establishing such a close interaction may start before birth. During the last months of my pregnancy, my son's father would play a tapping game with him. His dad would tap tap tap on my belly, and he'd tap tap tap back--kicking seemingly with the same rhythm. The father-son r.. | Louann Brizendine | ||
| 453aae8 | Don't say something permanently painful just because you are temporarily ticked off. | Karen Ehman | ||
| 3cbacba | Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs. Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning. PROVERBS 10:12 - 13 | Karen Ehman | ||
| bd73e5e | Marriage is not about our ultimate happiness," she replied. "That is a lie from the devil. Marriage was made to refine us, to grow our character. It exposes the worst in us so that we see the need for humility, grace, forgiveness, and, most of all, our need for Jesus in our marriage." | Karen Ehman | ||
| e1cc57d | God created us with emotions, and anger is one of them. Feeling the emotion of anger is not the problem. The problem is when we let our anger trigger actions that result in wrongdoing. | Karen Ehman | ||
| 86056ee | Education must shift from instruction, from imposing of stencils, to discovery--to probing and exploration and to the recognition of the language of forms. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 538e4cc | Humor as a system of communications and as a probe of our environment--of what's really going on--affords us our most appealing anti-environmental tool. It does not deal in theory, but in immediate experience, and is often the best guide to changing perceptions. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| a18cde6 | Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. | language reading sound speech writing | Marshall McLuhan | |
| fbdb48b | Jack Paar mentioned that he once had said to a young friend, "Why do you kids use 'cool' to mean 'hot'?" The friend replied, "Because you folks used up the word 'hot' before we came along." | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 993401b | The formula for this brand of "historical" writing is to put the public on the inside; to let them feel the palpitations of royal and imperial lovers and to overhear their lispings and cooings. It can be argued that a man has to live somewhere, and that if his own time is so cut up by rapid change that he can't find a cranny big enough to relax in, then he must betake himself to the past. That is certainly one motive in the production of hi.. | fiction historical-fiction nostalgia past past-and-present rapid-change relaxation time truth | Marshall McLuhan | |
| daff311 | In the "Republic," Plato vigorously attacked the oral, poetized form as a vehicle for communicating knowledge. He pleaded for a more precise method of communication and classification ("The Ideas"), one which would favor the investigation of facts, principles of reality, human nature, and conduct. What the Greeks meant by "poetry" was radically different from what we mean by poetry. Their "poetic" expression was a product of a collective ps.. | media media-criticism plato poetry the-republic | Marshall McLuhan | |
| cf54db3 | Innumerable confusions and a profound feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transitions. Our "Age of Anxiety" is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools--with yesterday's concepts." | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| ce8f92e | Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 5b4c1b6 | by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and The Giver by Lois Lowry. And | Sharon M. Draper | ||
| 8ebfd40 | After over a century of one of the deepest blood feuds in the history of inhuman warfare, peace had finally descended on the sleepy coastal town of Beach Haven, New York. The unstable element of calm, however, is that it can retain its current form only when the variables remain relatively constant. | Phil Wohl | ||
| b675da1 | But there's a million of these towns that are like factories, breeding hate and fear that only the fortunate will never meet And these zoomed up kids die like saints, for someone else's dollar | heroin-abuse heroin-overdoes kids-dying-on-drugs the-almighty-dollar | Volatalistic Phil | |
| 9d3f864 | SILVER CITY IS NO PLACE FOR AMATEURS I left Colorado Springs the next morning and got back in the fucking car for another day of driving for the Tour of the Gila. I'd never driven in snow before, but I made it to Santa Fe and then Albuquerque in the afternoon, careful to dodge all the tumbleweeds on the highway in New Mexico. I hadn't known that those existed outside of cartoons. Already exhausted when I got off the interstate, I was surpri.. | Phil Gaimon | ||
| ad61447 | There's little back roads and little towns sometimes I never heard of them. I start to expect the gas station attendants to know me when I arrive. I get excited that I've been there before. I want them to welcome me. I'm disappointed when they don't. Something that I don't want to be true starts lookin' like it's al that's true only I don't know what it is. No. No. I need my marriage. I come here to tell you. I got to stay married. I'm lost.. | loneliness phil | David Rabe | |
| bfeaf7a | The thing I really like about Jase is that he's as obsessed with ducks as I am. I rarely took my boys hunting with me when they were very young. In fact, I never took them when I was still an outlaw. "Not this time, boys, we might be running from the game warden," I'd tell them. But after I repented and came to Jesus Christ, I started taking my sons hunting with me, beginning with Alan. Before we moved to where we live now, it was a pretty .. | Phil Robertson |