“Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.” EyePresidentOne ThingModernMastersContactErasThinkerSpeakersEye ContactGreat ThinkersModern EraGreat Speakers Book:The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1 Source: The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1
“In the modern Christian attempt to take a stand as Christ did, and maybe for others, win the approval of the world, the Christian will often think that it consists of targeting and demoralizing fellow Christians and only fellow Christians. It is one thing to stand against religious hypocrisy when one sees it, but it is another to go on snorting at anything or anyone who might seem 'too Christian' to us. The irony is that by doing this we are further advocating hypocrisy and 'half-hearted Christians'.” ThinkingWorldSeemsMightChristianWinningChristReligiousHalfOne ThingModernGoes OnFellowsIronyHypocrisyApprovalHeartedAdvocatingDemoralizingHalf Hearted Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.” WarUseEvilMoralOne ThingModernNew YorkStudentsColdUniversityLiberalismGraduatesCold WarConfrontingColumbiaGraduate StudentsColumbia UniversityModern Liberalism Author:Dennis Prager
“The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern "knowledge" is that it is wrong.” PeopleFactsLastsYoungUniverseOne ThingModernCenturyUnderstoodLitSpecialists Author:Isaac Asimov
“If there's one thing that the Web has changed about modern communication, it's that we've at long last done away with the archaic idea that publishing is the private playground of people who have ideas, experiences, and opinions.” PeopleIfsLongIdeasDoneLastsOpinionOne ThingModernChangedCommunicationPublishingPlaygroundsModern Communication Author:Lore Sjoberg
“Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.” HelpingArtistOne ThingModernStriveModern Art Author:Salvador Dali
“The interesting thing is the field is so big - it's enormous. One thing a modern civilization needs is energy.” NeedsBigsEnergyInterestingOne ThingModernFieldsCivilizationEnormousInteresting ThingsModern Civilization Author:Charlie Munger
“In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.” WorldSpiritAnimalPsychologyOne ThingModernCenturyKeysBehaviorUnderstoodConceptsForgottenEcologyLiving ThingsReductionModern ScienceAnimal Behavior Author:Terence McKenna