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The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf. Marshall McLuhan

Singing Wolf Hood Eaten Objection Red Commercials Modern Being Little Riding

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. Marshall McLuhan

Think Spells Backward About Diaper

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him. Marshall McLuhan

Man World Big Administrator Touch Inspires Abstraction Feel Merging Him Terror Real His Person Real Person Bureaucratic Who Things

Surround yourself with positive people. Melanie Fiona

Positive Yourself People Surround Yourself Surround

The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious, you open Pandora's box, and you can't close it again. Michael Redhill

Every side of a coin has another side. Myron Scholes

Every Side Another Coin

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. Northrop Frye

People King Stupid Sheep Back Easily Ancient Fact Particular Like Perhaps Most Metaphor Due Shepherd His Affectionate Goes Egypt Human Gregarious Being Convention Formed Use Societies

Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus. Paul Bloom

Nature Survival Natural Our Virus Drawn Rats Selection Shaped Toward Docile Like Snakes Brain Getting Human Human Brain Reproduction Warm Natural Selection Landscapes Aspects Payoff Cockroaches Enhance Creatures Presence

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet. Pierre Trudeau

Opportunity Luck Preparation Meet Chance

All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyone, including the experts, can be taken in, conned, and left bewildered by them. A good psychopath can play a concerto on anyone's heart strings. Robert D. Hare

Show up, shut up, and shine. Stephanie Savage

Shine Up Show Shut Shut Up

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings. Steven Pinker

Life Old Goodness Sense Meaning Of Life Our Topic Moral Worthy Morality Gives Conception Close Any Human Just Human Beings Psychology Meaning Meaning Of Us Beings Each

You can take a team of absolute all-stars in terms of their native abilities, but if they are not working together, they are much less effective than a team where there is less native ability but a higher degree of teamwork and cohesion. Stewart Butterfield

You Working Together Together Degree Ability Absolute Higher Take Terms Effective Than Native Where Much Working Less Team Teamwork Cohesion

How can we be free when we are prisoners to social media, in a world without privacy? How can we be free when our every movement is tracked and every conversation is recorded and can easily be held against us? How exactly are we free if we are tethered to our cell phones? Tom Green

The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved. W. P. Kinsella

Starved Bat Chatter Like Gloves Sound Crack Baseball

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children. Wilfrid Laurier

Future Past Ancestors Look Also Children Them Land

I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America. Wilfrid Laurier

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. William Osler

Wise Thought Nothing Say Given Conceal Look Grunt Speech

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