“If I can keep myself worthy here, if I can be true to gospel commandments, if I can keep covenants that I have made, the blessings of exaltation and eternal life that Heavenly Father holds out to all of His children apply to me. Every blessing - including eternal marriage - is and will be mine in due course.” IfsChildrenMadeI CanCoursesFatherMinesBlessingEternalIncludingWorthyDuesBeing TrueHeavenlyCommandmentsEternal LifeCovenantHeavenly FatherExaltationEternal Marriage Author:Lance B. Wickman
“Back in the Bruce Lee era, and in my era, Kung-Fu stirred up a kind of frenzy, and many people were learning martial arts from us. But about a decade ago, Hollywood began bringing in a number of our action choreographers, including two from my own stunt crew, where they became martial arts directors. Now, a decade later, Hollywood has learned it all, so when you look at the action films they're making now, they all use our action, our martial arts, and then add to that their own technology which is ten times better than ours, and it has to leave us dumbfounded: how did they film that?” PeopleLooksKindArtTwoUseActionFilmMy OwnNumbersTechnologyDirectorsTenHollywoodAddIncludingDecadesErasMartial ArtsCrewOur ActionsFrenzyChoreographersKung FuAction FilmsArt Director Author:Jackie Chan
“We have introduced equity into our life, including a uniform educational system. We have also introduced a Bill of Rights, which is not just a piece of paper, but a living document because we have created structures that are totally independent of the government and that can overrule the government, even the president.” GovernmentPresidentPiecesOur LivesRightsPaperIndependentBillsStructureIncludingEducationalUniformsDocumentsEquityBill Of RightsEducational System Author:Nelson Mandela
“America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there, and the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.” ShouldStatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesViolenceGunFlowOrganizationSouthIncludingCriminalsCashMexicoNorth AmericaSmugglingMoney Laundering Author:Alan Bersin
“Donald Trump has no sympathy with underdogs. They, including the Palestinians, are just "losers." So he will bring words and action together as Netanyahu wishes.” ActionTogetherWishTrumpIncludingLoserPalestinianUnderdogWords And ActionsNo Sympathy Author:Lawrence Davidson
“I reluctantly signed up for a journalism major, thinking I needed a fall-back way to make money should my career as a novelist fail to take off. As I started to try on journalism, including doing internships and working at the campus paper, I found I actually liked it. So I started to want to be a journalist.” ThinkingWayWantShouldTryingFallFoundCareersFailingNeededPaperMajorsIncludingJournalismMaking MoneyJournalistNovelistsCampusFall BackInternships Author:Kevin Maney
“I am for literally all of the underdogs that I can command and demand better of everyone, including myself.” I CanDemandIncludingCommandUnderdog Author:Van Jones
“America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.” AmericaDealsIssuesCenturyIslamIncludingGenderTrans Author:Van Jones
“Fidelity is the total quality of an experience, including a sense of exclusiveness and aura. Convenience is simply how easy something is to get, which often means a low price and ubiquitousness. A super-fidelity product or service would lose its luster and quality if it's pushed too hard toward convenience. A super-convenient product or service would start to get expensive and exclusive if it moved toward higher fidelity, which would naturally undermine its convenience.” IfsMeanHardEasyLosesQualityProductsHigherLowsMovedIncludingExpensiveExclusiveConvenienceConvenientFidelityAurasLuster Author:Kevin Maney
“Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James Brown recently; and, oddly, I found a lot in common between Jobs and Brown. Jobs was also a fantastic performer, put on an extraordinary live show at his product launches, but he could also be ruthless, cruel and totally self-aggrandizing. And just as Brown surrounded himself with the very best musicians, Jobs understood the importance of hiring the absolutely most talented people and knew how crucial they were to the success of what he was trying to do.” PeopleTryingSelfShowsJobsFoundCommonFiguresProductsMusicianUnderstoodImportanceExtraordinaryIncludingFantasticBrownPerformersCrucialDocumentariesInventorRuthlessHiring Author:Alex Gibney
“One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves. How can we expect anybody else to?” ProblemTermInterestPoliticianIncludingOppositionVotingEffectivenessHaving Hope Author:Gloria Steinem
“I know that nobody who hasn't been in battle or under attack can know what war is. But even in terms of being safe at home, it's also true that many Americans who think they know what being at war is, don't. Including, of course, George W. Bush and his people. They don't have a clue.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWarHomeCoursesTermBattleSafeIncludingClue Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“Liberalism is probably the root of most of the problems they face in life, including raising their kids, including educating their kids, practically every walk of life, because everything today's political.” ProblemKidsTodayFacesPoliticalWalksRootsIncludingLiberalismWalks Of Life Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Any incident could instantly blow up. Both sides [USA and Russia] are modernizing and increasing their military systems, including nuclear systems.” SidesMilitaryIncludingBlowNuclearRussiaUsaBoth SidesIncidents Author:Noam Chomsky
“That's our nuclear weapons strategy [going to frighten people], as of the early post-Cold War years. And I think this is a real failure of the intellectual community, including scholarship and the media. It's not like you had headlines all over the place. And it's not secret, the documents are there. And I think that's probably the right picture.” PeopleThinkingYearsWarRealCommunitySecretMediaLike YouColdWeaponsIntellectualStrategyIncludingNuclearPostsNuclear WeaponsDocumentsCold WarScholarshipHeadlines Author:Noam Chomsky
“We live in an age of de-democratization. The number of democracies in the world has been going backwards since 2005, and even many existing democracies including in Europe have been becoming less democratic.” WorldHas BeensAgeNumbersDemocracyBecomingEuropeDemocraticIncludingBackwardsDemocratization Author:David Frum
“Worldviews have four elements that help us understand how a person's story fits together: creation, fall, redemption, and restoration. "Creation" tells us how things began, where everything came from (including us), the reason for our origins, and what ultimate reality is like. "Fall" describes the problem (since we all know something has gone wrong with the world). "Redemption" gives us the solution, the way to fix what went wrong. "Restoration" describes what the world would look like once the repair begins to take place.” KnowsWorldWayGivingLooksPersonsReasonHelpingStoriesProblemRealityTogetherFallGoneFourCreationFitElementsSolutionsUltimateIncludingRedemptionWorldviewRestorationUltimate RealityFour Elements Author:Greg Koukl
“[The establishment and the mass media] will attack you, they will slander you, they will seek to destroy your career and your family, they will seek to destroy everything about you, including your reputation. They will lie, lie, lie, and then again they will do worse than that, they will do whatever is necessary.” LyingCareersMediaMassIncludingReputationOur FamilyEstablishmentSlanderMass Media Author:Donald Trump
“[Betsy] DeVos's statement turned a well-known Trump slogan, and proclaimed, we will make American education great again. Proponents of school choice were ecstatic, including Sandy Kress, a top education adviser in George W. Bush's administration.” WellsSchoolChoicesKnownTrumpIncludingStatementsAdministrationWell KnownSlogansEcstaticAdviserSandyAmerican EducationSchool Choice Author:Claudio Sanchez
“I'm shocked, like all of us, including Donald Trump, 'cause let's not pretend that even Donald Trump thought he was going to win this election.” WinningCausesTrumpElectionIncludingShocked Author:Margaret Hoover
“There are at least 23 countries that refuse to take their people back after they've been ordered to leave the United States. Including large numbers of violent criminals, they won't take them back. So we say, OK, we'll keep them. Not going to happen with me, not going to happen with me.” PeopleCountryStatesHappensUnitedNumbersUnited StatesIncludingRefuseCriminalsViolentLarge NumbersViolent Criminals Author:Donald Trump
“So far as Chairman Mao's own hopes were concerned, he initiated the "Cultural Revolution" in order to avert the restoration of capitalism, but he had made an erroneous assessment of China's actual situation. In the first place, the targets of the revolution were wrongly defined, which led to the effort to ferret out "capitalist roaders in power in the Party". Blows were dealt at leading cadres at all levels who had made contributions to the revolution and had practical experience, including Comrade Liu Shaoqi.” FirstsMadeOrderLevelsPartyEffortSituationRevolutionCapitalismConcernedIncludingBlowChinaPracticalsDefinedContributionTargetCapitalistChairmanRestorationAssessmentComradeMaoAvertFerretsChairman MaoCadrePractical Experience Author:Deng Xiaoping
“After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.” TwoThreeCan DoIncludingCinemaGrammar Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“Global central banks are working hard to lift their economies through an aggressively easy monetary policy. The ECB [European Central Bank] and BOJ [Bank of Japan] are buying tens of billions of bonds and other financial securities each month in an effort to stimulate their economies, which is pushing down rates everywhere, including in the U.S.” HardEasyEffortEconomySecurityPolicyMonthsRateIncludingFinancialBillionsLiftsBuyingJapanPushingMonetaryCentral BanksMonetary PolicyFinancial SecurityEach Month Author:Mark Zandi
“Building great public schools and universities, a strong health care system, including keeping the Affordable Care Act, and then an economy that works well for people so that when they put in a hard day's work, they can support themselves and their family members. Those are the fundamentals that have distinguished America from other nations in the world.” PeopleWorldWellsHardCareSchoolAmericaStrongNationsSupportEconomyBuildingMembersFundamentalsIncludingUniversityHealth CarePublic SchoolDistinguishedAffordableFamily MembersHealth Care SystemAffordable Care ActHard Days Author:Joaquin Castro
“I think anybody currently running for the presidency on the Republican side by default would be a huge improvement over Obama in every area, including foreign policy and the use of the military.” ThinkingUseWould BeRunningSidesMilitaryPolicyHugeRepublicanAreasIncludingImprovementForeign PolicyPresidencyDefault Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Dr. Martin Luther King was never a man to say 'I've got this' as the leader of the movement. He wasn't always sure that his decisions were correct, because he knew every decision he made was putting lives at risk, including his and his family's lives.” MenMadeDecisionLeaderRiskMovementKingsIncludingDrsLutherDr Martin Luther King Author:David Oyelowo
“One of the big mysteries for many conservatives for many, many moons - including me - was the existence of liberal Jews who put liberalism before their Judaism.” BigsExistenceMysteryMoonIncludingJewLiberalismJudaism Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I never worked on anything so hard in my life [like my book 'Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos'], including the Bar exam. The only other thing I could compare it to is having four babies by age 24. That was hard.” HeartBookHardAgePoliticalFourBabyIncludingBarsCompareExamBar Exam Author:Angela Alioto
“Membership in the European Community, now the European Union, has helped Ireland to take its place as a European country with all the member states, including Britain. It has therefore helped the maturing of a good bilateral relationship with Britain, lifting part of the burden of history.” CountryStatesCommunityMembersUnionsIncludingBurdenBritainMatureIrelandLiftingEuropean UnionMembershipEuropean Countries Author:Mary Robinson
“I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.” ThinkingWritingMeanPersonsBookVoicePoetPagesConsciousLibraryIncluding Author:Adrienne Rich
“I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.” LittlesUseTalkingGayIncludingProfessionBelieverUncomfortableOrganizedHierarchyPersecutedOrganized ReligionNon BelieverDemoralized Author:Adrienne Rich
“I am secretive. Always have been. And one way that secrecy manifested in my early life was that I was adept at juggling multiple social realities: I could get by no problem in many social arenas (including that of high school), but also felt alienated and totally uninspired by everything that happened there.” WayHas BeensProblemRealitySchoolSocialFeltHappenedHigh SchoolIncludingOne WayMultipleNo ProblemArenaSecrecySecretiveJugglingAdeptEarly LifeUninspired Author:Melissa Febos
“Your short-term gains are the rest of the world's long-term disasters - for everybody, including yourselves. And, I'm sorry, I've been saying you and the United States or America, when I actually mean the US government. There's a difference. Big one.” WorldMeanLongStatesBigsGovernmentAmericaTermDifferencesUnitedUnited StatesGainsSorryIncludingDisasterLong TermI'm SorryShort Term Author:Arundhati Roy
“In India, 100 of the richest people own assets worth 25% of the gross domestic product. There's something terribly wrong. No individual and no corporation should be allowed to amass that kind of unlimited wealth, including bestselling writers like myself, who are showered with royalties.” PeopleShouldKindIndividualWealthProductsIndiaIncludingCorporationsAssetsUnlimitedGrossRoyaltyGross Domestic Product Author:Arundhati Roy
“I think in those countries, including my own in India, where I think primary education has been badly neglected by successive governments, I blame the opposition as much. Why have they allowed the government to get away with it?” ThinkingHas BeensCountryGovernmentMy OwnIndiaBlameIncludingPrimariesOppositionGet AwayNeglectedPrimary Education Author:Amartya Sen
“South Korea from a country that had relatively little primary education became close to universal literacy in the course of 25, 30 years, in a way trying to replicate what Japan had done earlier. They were learning to some extent from the Japanese experience too. So I think, in a sense, the East Asians were following a path, which all other countries including South Asia could follow but chose not too.” ThinkingWayTryingYearsLittlesCountryDoneCoursesPathUniversalSouthIncludingFollowingEastPrimariesJapanOther CountriesAsiaLiteracyKoreaReplicateSouth KoreaSouth AsiaPrimary Education Author:Amartya Sen
“There is a grand designer behind everything. God's plan for your life, all that happens to you, including your mistakes, your sins, and your hurts.” HappensHurtSinBehindsMistakePlansIncludingDesignerGod's Plan Book:The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“By giving every child a fair start, we are improving our collective future, including the private sector's ability to find talent in a very competitive global marketplace.” GivingChildrenAbilityTalentFairsIncludingCollectivesImprovingMarketplacePrivate Sector Author:Shakira
“We, including many Christians, read the Bible through "eyes" conditioned by, and even accommodated to, modern Western culture plus the influences of messages and ideas from other cultures that are alien to the worldview of the biblical writers. Therefore, in order fully to understand the Bible and allow the Bible to absorb the world (rather than the world - culture - absorb the Bible) we must practice an "archaeology" of the biblical writers' implicit, assumed view of reality.” WorldIdeasRealityEyeChristianOrderCultureViewsPracticeInfluenceModernMessagesWesternIncludingAliensPlusBiblicalWorldviewThrough The EyesImplicitOther CulturesWestern CultureArchaeology Author:Roger E. Olson
“Today we cannot assume people, even all Christians, understand the Bible's implicit, underlying view of reality. We have to dig it out and show it to people, including Christians, and ask them to "see reality as this" rather than "as that" - where "that" refers to any number of unbiblical ideas about reality.” PeopleIdeasShowsRealityTodayChristianAsksViewsNumbersAssumingIncludingImplicit Author:Roger E. Olson
“Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health.” AgeSexDealsEmotionInformationIdentityIncludingCarrieMatesFertilityOdor Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by investments in good training and wages for caregiving, including early childhood education, in the market.” ShouldCareChildhoodPolicyProduceTaxesTrainingPaidInvestmentIncludingCreditGoodsWagesParentalEarly ChildhoodCaregiversCaregivingEarly Childhood Education Author:Riane Eisler
“The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet. So you don't have to wait for a letter to get to England in six weeks, you have almost instant communication. That was an enormous shift.” Has BeensBigsWaitingWeekCenturyCommunicationInternetSixLateLettersEnglandIncludingEnormousShipsRadicalInstantSailing19th CenturyBig ChangesTelegraphRadical ChangeSailing ShipsInstant Communication Author:Noam Chomsky
“Hamas must agree to first recognize Israel, second to end all violence, third to accept past agreements. Try to find a mention of the fact that the United States and Israel reject all three of those. They obviously don't recognize Palestine, they certainly don't withdraw the use of violence or the threat of it - in fact they insist on it - and they don't accept past agreements, including the road map.” TryingFirstsEndsStatesFactsUsePastThreeUnitedAcceptingUnited StatesViolenceThirdsAgreeThreatIncludingIsraelAgreementRejectsMapsPalestineHamasRoad Maps Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think it is less the limited amount of information than the filters that information about the Middle East must pass through before being fairly addressed in the mainstream media. In more intellectual and geopolitical terms, the perceptions of the region are distorted by a combination of Orientalism and the priorities of the state of Israel, including the refusal to discuss the relevance of Israel's nuclear weapons arsenal in the context of addressing Iran on its nuclear program.” ThinkingStatesTermMiddleMediaInformationAmountPerceptionWeaponsIntellectualProgramIncludingIsraelEastNuclearPrioritiesCombinationRegionsIranMainstreamMiddle EastNuclear WeaponsRelevanceRefusalArsenalFiltersMainstream MediaGeopoliticalOrientalism Author:Richard A. Falk
“Latin America was the most obedient follower of the neoliberal regime that was instituted by the United States, its allies and the international financial institutions. They followed it most rigorously. Almost everyone who's followed those rules, including the Western countries, have suffered. And in Latin America they suffered severely.” CountryStatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesInstitutionsWesternIncludingFinancialInternationalLatinFollowersAlliesRegimesObedientLatin AmericaFinancial Institutions Author:Noam Chomsky
“Science is starting to show that our brains are less able to detect calories in liquids. So, people in the know, including food industry executives, when they run into health trouble, the first thing they do is cut calories out of all the liquids that they drink as a way of maintaining their weight.” PeopleKnowsWayFirstsShowsRunningAbleBrainCuttingTroubleIndustryDrinkWeightIncludingStartingExecutivesMaintainingLiquidCaloriesFood Industry Author:Michael Moss
“I am interested in the political economy of institutional power relationships in transition. The question is one of "reconstructive" communities as a cultural, as well as a political, fact: how geographic communities are structured to move in the direction of the next vision, along with the question of how a larger system - given the power and cultural relationships - can move toward managing the connections between the developing communities. There are many, many hard questions here - including, obviously, ones related to ecological sustainability and climate change.” WellsHardFactsMovingPoliticalNextGivenCommunityVisionEconomyConnectionsClimateClimate ChangeIncludingDevelopingRelatedTransitionSustainabilityEcologicalPolitical EconomyHard QuestionsPower Relationships Author:Gar Alperovitz
“Women of all ages in countries around the world are raped at all different times of day, in different circumstances, wearing all different kinds of clothing (including in countries where the majority of women wear completely covering clothing). The one thing they all have in common? They came into contact with a rapist.” WorldKindDifferentCountryAgeCommonOne ThingCircumstancesMajorityIncludingContactAround The WorldClothingsDifferent KindsCoveringDifferent TimesTime Of Day Author:Laura Bates