“The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.” PurposeDealsPlansActivityIllegalCultivationColumbiaTraffickingIllegal Activities Author:Rand Beers
“March is a month of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country the weather is still so violent and changeable that outdoor activity in our yards seems light years away.” YearsStillsCountryLightSeemsDealsMonthsActivitySpringViolentWeatherFrustrationMarchYardsSpringtimeLight YearsOutdoor Activities Author:Thalassa Cruso
“Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which theorems-general and specific statements-can be deduced from the starting assumptions. It is, perhaps, the purest and most rigorous of intellectual activities, and is often thought of as queen of the sciences.” MayScienceDealsPracticeActivityIntellectualAccountsMathematicsStartingStatementsQueensAssumptionReasoningLogicalCountingMeasuringArithmeticTheoremsLogical Reasoning Author:Christopher Zeeman
“The Divide is like two rivers merging, at the point of merging there is a great deal of activity. The sunset, it's neither dark nor light, and the sunrises are the moments of transition.” TwoMomentsLightDarkDealsBuddhismActivityRiversSunsetTransitionDividesSunriseMerging Author:Frederick Lenz
“If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.” IfsNeedsWellsChildrenDoneEasyParentDealsPerspectiveDependsActivityStructureStableSupportiveChild Rearing Book:The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition Source: The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition
“Both at-home and working mothers can overmeet their mothering responsibilities. In order to justify their jobs, working mothers can overnurture, overconnect with, and overschedule their children into activities and classes. Similarly, some at-home mothers,... can make at- home mothering into a bigger deal than it is, over stimulating, overeducating, and overwhelming their children with purposeful attention.” ChildrenHomeJobsMotherOrderDealsAttentionResponsibilityClassActivityBiggerJustifyOverwhelmingMothering Book:Your Maternity Leave Source: Your Maternity Leave
“It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from facts to generalisation, no theoretic discovery in science is made. The poet, on the other hand, must not imagine but reason--that is to say, he must exercise a great deal of consciously directed thought in the selection and rejection of his data: there is a technical logic, a poetic reasoning in his choice of the words, rhythms and images by which a poem's coherence is achieved.” MadeReasonFactsHandsSciencePoetryChoicesImaginationDealsImaginePoetExerciseActivityDiscoveryLogicRhythmDataRejectionReasoningPoeticLeapSelectionImaginativeUnwiseCoherenceDiscovery In ScienceGeneralisation Author:Cecil Day-Lewis
“So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming.” PurposeLanguageNaturalDealsSituationWonderfulActivityJokesCriticismMathematicsAriseProgrammingCheatMaking LoveRudeLegislationInadequateTheoristsLiterary CriticismIntricacyArbitration Author:Edsger Dijkstra