“The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of our economy and our normal life, we'll lose that, and it's going to have broad effects as a consequence that we cannot predict.” LosesEconomyEffectsInternetNormalConsequenceBasesMediumsRelyBroadsProtectedNormal LifeMonitoring Author:Edward Snowden
“I'm a millionaire, I guess, but I'm just a normal person and I like everybody, taxi drivers, whoever you are, to call me by my first name and talk to me on a man-to-man basis. I think the garbage collector is as important as the goddamned president.” ThinkingMenFirstsPersonsImportantNamesPresidentNormalBasesCall MeDriversGarbageMillionaireCollectorsTalk To MeTaxi Author:Ted Turner
“There's a clarity that comes with great ideas: You can [easily and simply] explain why something's a great business, how and why it's cheap, why it's cheap for temporary reasons and how, on a normal basis, it should be trading at a much higher level. You're never sitting there on the 40th page of your spreadsheet, as Buffett would say, agonizing over whether you should buy or not.” ShouldIdeasReasonLevelsHigherNormalPagesSittingBasesClarityTemporaryTradingGreat IdeaHigher LevelGreat BusinessAgonizingBuffett Author:Joel Greenblatt
“We call our intuition our sixth sense, but in reality it would be called our first sense, because it's rooted in quantum nature of reality. It was around long before our solar system and our planetary system were even formulated or even organized. It is at the basis of how our normal sensing works. So instead of being our sixth sense or even â€" using the parapsychological term â€" "extrasensory perception," it's not. It's at the basis of our perception, and that's the quantum world.” WorldFirstsLongRealityWould BeTermNormalPerceptionBasesIntuitionOrganizedRootedQuantumSolar SystemSixth SenseSensing Author:Edgar Mitchell
“Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's natural gifts. All that is needed is to remove the obstacles. And this should be the basis of, and point of departure for, all future education. The first thing to be done, therefore, is to discover the true nature of a child and then assist him in his normal development.” ShouldFirstsChildrenDoneNaturalEnvironmentDevelopmentNeededNormalRedBasesObstaclesRemoveTrue NatureDepartureFloweringNatural Gifts Author:Maria Montessori
“If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge my religious beliefs because that was the basis of creation—mine anyway. I was afraid to question the Bible or anything in it, and when I did, that’s when I became involved with PFLAG and realized that my son was a perfectly normal human being and there was nothing for God to heal because Bobby was perfect just the way he was.” IfsWayHumansChildrenSchoolLawBeliefChallengesReligiousHuman BeingsPerfectDemocracyRightsCreationMinesSonEvolutionInvolvedAuthorityNormalAbuseBasesSlaveryMedicineImprovementHealMy SonChild AbuseWomens RightsPublic SchoolReligious BeliefPerfectly Normal Author:Mary Griffith