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| 4012625 | One more story from the Bible, about King David. He slept with a married woman, Bathsheba, and got her pregnant. In order to cover up his transgression, David arranged for Bathsheba's husband, a soldier, to die in battle. David then took Bathsheba as his own wife. God sent a prophet named Nathan to let David know this behavior was unacceptable. But how does a lowly prophet go about imparting such a message to the king of Israel? Nathan told.. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 653260c | Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life. And understanding them - or, often, deciphering them - is the key to understanding a problem, and how it might be solved. Knowing what to measure, and how to measure it, can make a complicated world less so. There is nothing like the sheer power of numbers to scrub away lawyers of confusion and contradiction, especially with emotional, hot-button topics. The conventional wisdom is often wrong. .. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| cd368bd | i want to be a singer | stephen manes | ||
| 8fec191 | From all over the planet they came.... They came in companies and alone, with money and without, knowing and naive. They tore themselves from warm hearths and good homes, promising to return; they fled from cold hearts and bad debts, never to return. They were farmers and merchants and sailors and slaves and abolitionists and soldiers of fortune and ladies of the night. They jumped bail to start their journey, and jumped ship at journey's e.. | H.W. Brands | ||
| d2f822d | Go on and finish your studies," Gore said. "You are poor enough, but there are greater evils than poverty. Live on no man's favor. What bread you do eat, let it be the bread of independence. Pursue your profession. Make yourself useful to your friends and a little formidable to your enemies, and you have nothing to fear." | H.W. Brands | ||
| 4ce3414 | Reagan to son: how really great is the challenge of proving your masculinity and charm with one woman for the rest of your life. Any man can find a twerp here and there who will go along with cheating, and it doesn't take all that much manhood. It does take quite a man to remain attractive and to be loved by a woman who has heard him snore, seen him unshaven, tended him while he was sick and washed his dirty underwear. Do that and keep her .. | H.W. Brands | ||
| f8e27be | He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time. | depression distraction vocation work | H.W. Brands | |
| 5e71384 | It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt | discernment popularity | H.W. Brands | |
| 73c5f20 | Both sides had more confidence in their opponents' weaknesses than their own strength. | gossip slander | H.W. Brands | |
| 1d78a18 | or creed." These rights included: The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation; The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation; The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living; The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competiti.. | H.W. Brands | ||
| 64787d9 | The audience perked up the more. American conservatives were a combative tribe who didn't speak of liberals as their "friends," but here Reagan did. His tone was serious, but it wasn't angry, the way Goldwater's often was. Reagan criticized Democratic leaders, but he didn't criticize Democrats. He condemned the direction the American government was going, but he professed confidence in the American people." | H.W. Brands | ||
| 9ca4804 | Grant made the perfect candidate, a war hero with indistinct views on most political issues. | imagery patriotism | H.W. Brands | |
| fe0103c | The reason is that the people know that the Democratic Party is the people's party, and the Republican Party is the party of special interest, and it always has been and always will be. | H.W. Brands | ||
| 90bdc13 | That winter you left me snow-blind trying to find enough details that would let you know that even though some people have perfect sight, those same people could try to paint you by numbers and they still wouldn't get you right. You were Monet number two and Van Gogh number 6, a mix tape of Hendrix and Leibowitz portraits. It makes no sense to me that we were ever together. And my makeshift weather reports were the closest I ever came to te.. | shane-koyczan weather-reports | Shane Koyczan | |
| f4ca523 | By itself, one small win may seem unimportant," writes Dr. Karl Weick in a seminal paper for American Psychologist in 1984. "A series of wins at small but significant tasks, however, reveals a pattern that may attract allies, deter opponents, and lower resistance to subsequent proposals." "Once a small win has been accomplished," Weick continues, "forces are set in motion that favor another small win." From" | Shane Snow | ||
| 3ad4f17 | To be good citizens, responsible workers and providers, and ethical businesspeople, we need a minimum level of knowledge about the way the world works, who's in it, and how things fit together. | Shane Snow | ||
| 86d4163 | A friend and I prepared a video clip once for a worship service. Our goal was to capture people's responses to the word Christian, so we took a video camera and hit the streets, from the trendy arts district to the suburbs. We asked people to say the first word that came to mind in response to each word we said: "snow," "eagles" (it's Philly), "teenagers," and finally "Christian." When people heard the word Christian, they stopped in their .. | Shane Claiborne | ||
| c88f42a | Both C.K. and Bieber are extremely gifted performers. Both climbed to the top of their industry, and in fact, both ultimately used the Internet to get big. But somehow Bieber "made it" in one-fifteenth of the time. How did he climb so much faster than the guy Rolling Stone calls the funniest man in America--and what does this have to do with Jimmy Fallon? The answer begins with a story from Homer's Odyssey. When the Greek adventurer Odysseu.. | Shane Snow | ||
| a37530c | his lips parted and a smile began but, before it could turn into something common, like a laugh or a smile...she kissed him. | Amanda V. Shane | ||
| b3c84dd | Kids there have much more sense that they're going to have to construct their own future," Wagner says. They're taught to be entrepreneurs of their own lives. Instead of standing passively on an education assembly line and being handed reams of facts and figures, they are thrown into rooms of bricks and asked to build castles." | Shane Snow | ||
| e77cb4d | Counterintuitively, however, "Informal mentoring," Underhill found, "produced a larger and more significant effect on career outcomes than formal mentoring." | Shane Snow | ||
| 6bd5e17 | Traditional paths are not just slow; they're no longer viable if we want to compete and innovate. | Shane Snow | ||
| 0cde5dc | Mentorship is the secret of many of the highest-profile achievers throughout history. | Shane Snow | ||
| 8ba02fd | You can accelerate your training if you know how to train properly, but you still don't need to be that special. I don't think I'm that special of a programmer or a businessperson or a race car driver. I just know how to train. | Shane Snow | ||
| 897ea6f | It's over for me, isn't it?" The old man glanced across the room mid-chew. "What do you mean?" "I'm not getting my body back." He shrugged. "Probably not." My head swam. It didn't matter that at some level I had suspected the truth; hearing the words spoken out loud felt like a kick in the teeth. "Why didn't you tell me before?" "You're a smart guy, Alexander, and we both know you had already figured it out. That's always the way with peopl.. | Linda Francis Lee | ||
| 4ce217d | You're serious." "As serious as an accountant at an IRS audit." His face closed off, reminding her of the ruthlessness she had first noticed about him on the front steps. "You have no business opening a restaurant." "Says who?" "Says the guy who watched you try to extricate yourself from a burger suit with a knife." Her mouth fell open. "Burger suits and restaurants are two different kettles of fish." "Kettles of fish? Now there's great bus.. | portia-and-gabriel sayings terminology texas-style | Linda Francis Lee | |
| fe899f0 | Two people have to love and respect each other to make a good team, at least in marriage. They have to be committed down to their cores in order to survive the ups and downs of life. | Linda Francis Lee | ||
| 16c376c | Mothers are strong enough to let their daughters find out who they really are, and daughters are stong enough to realize that mistakes or no, every mother has done the best she can ... and if she's lucky, her own daughter will one day give her the same gift of understanding. | Linda Francis Lee | ||
| 8b43e18 | I still didn't know what the future held. I didn't have a map or even a plan. But I had learned that's what life was - risky, messy, no way to tie it up in neat little packages despite my desire for it to be otherwise. | Linda Francis Lee | ||
| cc852ad | Sometimes there is more to a person's need for white picket fences than safety, just as sometimes there is more to a person's rebellion than the need to lash out against rules. | Linda Francis Lee | ||
| fac19e5 | It's regret that kills, the if onlys that leave the mortal wounds. | Linda Francis Lee | ||
| 8031d35 | The climate warmed. Wild grasses, flowers and trees took root in the land behind the huge rock. In time, their growing and dying made deep rich loam on which a magnificent forest grew. Into the forest came bear, deer, brightly colored birds, and the Pawtuxets, a tribe of the Wampanoag, The People of the Dawn. | Jean Craighead George | ||
| 7afd403 | To Squanto, as to all Native Americans, the land did not belong to the people, people belonged to the land. | Jean Craighead George | ||
| afca777 | Maybe the Europeans once thought the earth was flat, but the Eskimos always knew it was round. One only needed to look at the earth's relatives, the sun and the moon, to know that. | Jean Craighead George | ||
| d7298c8 | Passengers drank and smoked. Both; a lot. This was a significant source of profit for Cunard. The company laid in a supply of 150 cases of Black & White Whiskey, 50 cases of Canadian Club Whiskey, and 50 of Plymouth Gin; also, 15 cases each of an eleven-year-old French red wine, a Chambertin, and an eleven-year-old French white, a Chablis, and twelve barrels of stout and ten of ale. Cunard stockpiled thirty thousand "Three Castles" cigarett.. | Erik Larson | ||
| d99a204 | Eventually they [Sarunas Marciulionis and Don Nelson] got a call from a representative of the Grateful Dead, whose members had been inspired by Lithuania's struggle for independence. Nelson and Marciulionis showed up at the address they were given in San Francisco, which was a small, nondescript garage. 'I thought we were the victim of a practical joke until we opened the door and there was a state-of-the-art recording studio' says Nelson. .. | basketball don-nelson dream-team grateful-dead jerry-garcia lithuania sarunas-marciulionis | Jack McCallum | |
| 0240d6c | Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future." -Nelson Mandela" | universal | Michael Gallegos Borresen | |
| 3e1bad7 | The entire concept of pessimism crumbles the moment one human being puts aside thoughts of self and reaches out to another to minister to her suffering. The experience of either person can neither be denied nor adequately explained by a negative philosophy. | Michael J. Nelson | ||
| 5169893 | It usually starts innocently enough, a friend remarking to you that the co-op has a nice new crop of grapefruit. "Hmm, I don't really care for grapefruit myself," you say, entirely without malice. She seems startled, "Really?" she says. If you had a tendency to be sarcastic, you might say, "No, I deliberately misrepresent my taste in citrus to gain the upper hand in conversation." But you are not sarcastic, so you restate your dislike, a li.. | Michael J. Nelson | ||
| a9b91de | When you're designing for extremes with software, the three most important "extremes" to remember are: 1. Design for people who can't read. 2. Design for people who can't use a mouse. 3. Design for people who have such bad memories they would forget their own name if it weren't embossed on their American Express" | Joel Spolsky | ||
| 0ad92dc | In any case, even if a usability test resolves a dispute, it doesn't do it in any kind of a statistically valid way. Unless you test thousands of people from all walks of life under all kinds of conditions, something that not even Microsoft can afford to do, you are not actually getting statistically meaningful results. Remember, the real strength of usability tests is in finding truffles--finding the broken bits so you can fix them. Actual.. | Joel Spolsky | ||
| ace69bc | This experience in Malawi changed my whole outlook on how much all of God's servants are interwoven and interlinked. The most humble ministries or missionaries, evangelists, teachers, and shepherds, even those who are perhaps considered failures, are part of the "big picture" and will rejoice with all of us in harvest-joy. This sums up this great book of Roberts Liardon. Let's join their ranks. The harvest goes on. Jesus is coming soon!" | Roberts Liardon | ||
| 4d1fc21 | Lester Sumrall told a story of a conference he and Smith Wigglesworth were part of. It was the first time Sumrall had met Wigglesworth. Sumrall got up to preach. And he preached and preached. After a while, Wigglesworth came up behind him, put his hand on his shoulder, and said, "Son, it would have been wise for you to have ended fifteen minutes ago, when the Holy Ghost ended." And he shut down the meeting. So many people go beyond the Holy.. | Roberts Liardon | ||
| 22b94a0 | Today our nations and societies are ripe for another reformation. Are you one who has the thread of God running through you? Or are you more concerned with how you would look to others if you obeyed God, more concerned with popular opinion? Are you one struggling to climb a political, religious ladder, hoping to be recognized? Are you more comfortable staying isolated with your Christian friends and churches, or do you dare to be the extend.. | Roberts Liardon |