We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn't be admissible.
We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.
I take it personally when people belittle our employees and misrepresent our record as an employer.
This low-fat idea that's been drummed into our heads and bellies is completely off-base and deeply responsible for most of our modern ills.
I don't want to see crocs end up as boots, bags and belts. We're killing and consuming our wildlife icons.
Culturally, I remember listening to Salil Chowdhury's music for Malayalam films. Many Bengali actors have worked in our films, too.
If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school.
Our best thoughts come from others.
We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.
All of us, as citizens, need to kind of get over our classisms and vote for the betterment of us all.
