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“What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.”

People Humans Hard Fall Practice Style Walking Mountain Appreciate Lifetime Manage Skulls Unstable

Author:Randall Munroe

“Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism, Life After Faith is utterly devoid of cartoons and caricatures of religion. It is, instead, a sober and soulful book, an exemplary practice of philosophical reflection. Scrupulous in its argument, elegant in its style, humane in its spirit, it is animated by a stirring aspiration to wisdom. Even as I quarrel with it I admire it.”

“Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practices in Scandinavia, but Snohetta places a stronger emphasis on group participation in the design process than typical high-style firms.”

May Process Practice Groups Style Design Office Stronger Democratic Employment Atmosphere Firm Typical Participation Workplace Emphasis Scandinavia Design Process

Author:Martin Filler

“Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth century their sole object would have been to write correctly, to conform to the manner of the period. In practice, their conforming individualism means an imitation, studiously concealed, of the eccentricities of poems which really are individual.”

Ifs Knows Writing Mean Has Beens Names Individual Practice Century Style Objects Periods Pursue Individualism Sole Imitation Conform Concealed Eccentricity Pseudo Individual Style

Author:Laura Riding

“Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregnant puts it, rather than as a philosophy, are less invested in our own practices. What we do is often less a matter of conviction than one of convenience. What we need to remember is that there is no need to apologize for that, even in the face of the most red-faced outrage.”

Needs Littles Matter Philosophy Remember Faces Practice Minutes Style Red Series Instinct Conviction Pregnant Apologizing Convenience Adjustment Outrage Reflexes Parenting Styles

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“It has not been the style of Canadian politicians to write of their experiences, although it is the common practice for British, French, and American Politicians upon their retirement. But I have been criticized before and I expect to be again.”

Writing Has Beens Common Practice Style Politician British Retirement

Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

“I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.”

Mind Two Self Sometimes Body Care Three Practice Week Style College Yoga Routine Self Care Three Times Crave Staples

Author:Taylor Schilling

“Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.”

Real Government Practice Democracy Style Democratic Alternatives Pretending Authoritarianism Democratic Government

Author:Ivan Krastev

“(Al) Lopez is a great believer in speed and hustle, in the go-go style of baseball. No other manager is so determined a foe of stodgy baseball, lack of hustle and slipshod practices and so powerful an advocate of the unexpected.”

Powerful Practice Style Baseball Determined Speed Believer Managers Unexpected Als Foe Hustle

Author:Nellie Fox

“My wife and I practice "Doggy Style:" I beg, she rolls over.”

Practice Wife Style My Wife

Author:Steven Rice