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 Maybe we should start this again. 

Imagine two astronauts go to the moon, and while they're there, there's an accident and their ship can't take them back to Earth...

“When I was asked to make this address I wondered what I had to say to you boys who are graduating. And I think I have one thing to say. If...

Around 70% of gross domestic product ( GDP ) comes from consumer spending. Around 80% of U.S. households make under $100,000 per year. This ...

My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And bot...

"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain ...

When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and you're life is just to live your life inside the world. Try n...

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as ...

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. M...

What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos....

Excerpt from the Bad Religion song: Now I don't know what stopped Jesus Christ From turning every hungry stone into bread And I don...

The point being that too many “liberals” are really conservative apologists for the status quo political order, just as too many “libertari...

"Consider Janet Yellen, her recent confirmation to chair the Fed has made her the most powerful woman in the world, the most powerful w...

From Doctor Zhivago: "Deals were made on the scale of the turnover of a rag and bone merchant in a flea market and their pettiness le...

In a park near my home is a plaque that reads: "We honor all those who fought for our community." There is probably a similar ...

Like all organizational models, waterfall is mainly a theory of collaboration. By putting the most serious planning at the beginning, with s...

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how li...

In the committee's draft of the "guiding principles" was something about "Intellectual and creative skills." A bunch...

The problem here isn't that we think Richard Cohen gags at the sight of an interracial couple and their children. The problem is that Ri...

"No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of bi...

The Hacker Spirit is: Exploiting a system, but never in an illegal, harmful or immoral way. Working smart, not just working hard; gettin...

"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and...

Some evidence the answer is yes . In a complex system a clear answer will be elusive but there are good reasons to think more money is not ...

From ' The World I Live In ' by Hellen Keller, Page 37 Before my teacher came to me, I did not know that I am. I lived in a world ...

Jordi Brandts and colleagues got a group of students to predict a sequence of five coin tosses, and then selected the best and the worst pre...

Shortages of drugs, especially generic injectables, continue to cause significant harm to patients. A new Congressional report offers the be...

"Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sk...

Short term GOP "victories" that will drive yet another nail into the Republican coffin. First, Ohio: "With the passage of O...

From "For God's Sake: An Atheist, A Jew, a Christian and a Muslim Debate Religion": Rachel Woodlock (Islam) : Religion, unfo...

Class warfare: Targeting the least, who have no voice…big banks and Corporations have teamed up, forcing minimum wage workers to be paid thr...