"America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush."

-- Eric Liu

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“Speaking as a phenomenologist, it seems to me that a considerable portion of mind wandering actually is "mental avoidance behaviour", an attempt to cope with adverse internal stimuli or to protect oneself from a deeper processing of information that threatens self-esteem.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“One of the reasons my father ... became a dentist was so he could always be home for dinner and spend weekends with his family. At one point he had thought about being a musician, but he said, I'm not going to do that because I'd be on the road all the time and I wouldn't be with my family.”
“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.”

Source : Attributed in "The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time" by Leslie Pockell, November 23, 2004.
“I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.”
“I don't want this to be a distraction. This has been distracting enough. I'm not going to rehash this going forward. I'm sure other people are going to have questions about it, but we've got a big season coming up.”
“The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.”
“The industrial use of ***** will revolutionize society”
“Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit.”

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