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“I think synergies are a lot like UFOs: Lots of people claim to have seen them, but few can actually prove they exist.”

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Bethany McLean is a seasoned editor with extensive experience in financial news reporting. Born on December 12, 1970, she has worked for several prominent media outlets. more

“It is amazing how little effort most people make to improve control of their attention. If reading a book seems too difficult, instead of sharpening concentration we tend to set it aside and instead turn on the television, which not only requires minimal attention, but in fact tends to diffuse what little it commands with choppy editing, commercial interruptions, and generally inane content.”

People Ifs Littles Book Facts Seems Turns Reading Difficult Effort Attention Television Command Concentration Editing Turn-on Interruptions Sharpening

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“It is an almost infallible rule that the more permissive a person is on social and moral issues the more in favour they are of strict gun control.”

Persons Social Moral Issues Gun Strict Gun Control Favour Infallible Moral Issues

Author:Michael Coren

“It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.”

Ends Age Found Individual Dark Lord Advantage Protection Flight Appropriate Chapters Recalls Folds Dark Ages

Book:The Ethics of Redistribution

Source: The Ethics of Redistribution

“It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact.”

Long Facts Difficult Millions Theory Conclusion

Author:Bill James

“It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.”

Difficult Mankind Income Things To Do Reasonable Better Things To Do

Author:Hugh Kingsmill

“It is foolish to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out.”

Waiting Foolish Ships

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.”

Body Anxiety Feminine Being A Woman

Book:The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers to suppress religion and undermine the traditional family. Theophobes would find such a characterization truly horrifying, but it's true. This explains why theophobia - while popular in faculty lounges, journalism seminars and Hollywood bacchanals - has not and probably never will attract a public following of any appreciable influence or size.”

Pain Careers Influence Special Hollywood Notes Size Following Accidents Traditional Journalism Faculty Pot Butchers Characterization Seminars Traditional Family

Author:Tony Snow

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