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Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we sit down to eat, but that is our most profound engagement with the rest of nature.
Michael Pollan
Nature
Agriculture
Rest
Sit
Down
Changes
Else
Our
Eat
Composition
More
More Than Anything
Most
Than
Anything
Anything Else
Realize
Landscape
Engagement
Species
Profound
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.
Michael Porter
Strategy
Be Different
About
Deliberately
Making
Different
Choices
Choosing
Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.
Mitchell Zuckoff
Money
Every
One Thing
Easy
Driven
Common
The One Thing
Thing
Desire
The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.
Morrie Schwartz
You
Yourself
Little Things
Obey
Value
Big
Think
Society
Those
Must
Determine
How
Any
Big Things
Anyone
Little
Choose
Things
Holiness of life is not the privilege of a chosen few - it is the obligation, the call, and the will of God for every Christian.
Mother Angelica
Life
God
Obligation
Will
Few
Christian
Every
Call
Privilege
Holiness
Chosen
God's grace is at its best in weakness, so we need never fear our weakness. In fact, these weaknesses will determine in what way we shall glorify God for all eternity.
Mother Angelica
God
Best
Grace
Fear
Will
Our
Way
Weakness
Weaknesses
Determine
Shall
Fact
Never
Glorify
In Fact
Eternity
Need
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
Phillip E. Johnson
Education
Democracy
Degree
Trouble
Virtue
Citizenry
Civic
Constitutional
Does
Certain
Certain Degree
Serious
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins
Education
Young
Object
Throughout
Educate
Themselves
Prepare
Lives
The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.
Roger Babson
Man
Took
Had
Successful
Successful Man
Who
Chance
When love is deep, much can be accomplished.
Shinichi Suzuki
Love
Love Is
Accomplished
Much
Deep
When you look on the bright side, you're acknowledging that there is a dark side at which you are choosing not to gaze. If you think that the darkest hour is before the dawn, you accept that you are moving from darkness to light.
Srikumar Rao
You
Dark
Darkness
Light
Dark Side
Darkest
Before
Think
Side
Gaze
Dawn
Hour
Look
Accept
Which
Acknowledging
Moving
Choosing
Bright
Life is a university, and you never graduate. Accept that whatever happens to you, no matter how terrible, is there to teach you. Your job is to learn and do what you have to.
Srikumar Rao
Life
You
Matter
Job
Life Is A
Whatever
Never
Terrible
Learn
Accept
How
Graduate
Happens
Teach
Your
University
When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.
Srikumar Rao
Will
Flower
Come
Bee
Blossoms
The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play.
Temple Grandin
You
Learning
About
Like
Because
Always
How
Get
Behave
Gradually
Autistic
Being
Less
Keep
Play
Thing
Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.
Thomas P. Campbell
You
World
Car
Calm
Physicality
Come
Like
Escape
Authenticity
Quiet
Where
Place
Uniqueness
Museums
The universe is an intelligence test.
Timothy Leary
Intelligence
Universe
Test
If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.
William Lyon Phelps
Rain
World
Ought
Out
Would
Running
Only
Between
Were
Wet
Get
Anyone
Then
Who
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Simple
Mind
Single
Society
Lust
Part
Doctrine
Terrorists
Answers
Left
Confined
Decree
Who
Many
Right
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Age
Matter
Old
Finds
Pursuits
He
Feel
Himself
His
Years
May
Cannot
While
Company
You can coddle your child and tell them, 'You're the best no matter what.' But in the end, when they go out into the real world, I think it's pretty tough out there and other children are cruel.
Amy Chua
Best
You
World
Matter
Tough
Think
Other
Out
Tell
Pretty
Cruel
Real
Go
End
Child
Children
The Real World
In The End
Real World
Them
Your
Your Child
It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
Anna Julia Cooper
Needs
Man
Woman
World
Cause
Black
White
Brown
Strongest
Voice
Red
Hear
Nor
Intelligent
Tis
Ignorant
Speaking
Nay
Even
Vindication
Her
The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Achievement
Pride
Values
Everything
Wearing
Betraying
Perennial
Like
Self-Esteem
Praised
False
Ultimately
Pins
Celebration
Flag
Curriculum
Where
While
Meaning
Toddlers
Lapel
Stands
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
Anne Sullivan
Selfish
Imagination
Desperately
Our
Cling
Existence
Escape
Want
Commonplace
Chains
Imagine
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!
Anne Sullivan
Teacher
Morning
Heart
Joy
Light
Mind
Singing
Understanding
Changed
Pupil
All Things
Miracle
Behold
Happened
Little
Things
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
Anne Sullivan
Education
Me
Idiot
Beginning
Every
Think
Systems
Kind
Must
Seem
Supposition
Built
Am
Up
Child
Suspect
Taught
Elaborate
Special
Who
Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
Bill Nye
Great
Winter
Great Deal
Long
Spring
Talk
Deal
Lap
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