“Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, "I am not a crook." Jimmy Carter says, "I have lusted after women in my heart." President Reagan says, "I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope."” ThinkingWritingHeartPresidentTakenMy HeartTestsJimmyCarterDopeCrooksPresident Reagan Author:Art Buchwald
“We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world of all living things. The danger and the glory and the choice rest finally in man. The test of his perfectibility is at hand. Having taken Godlike power, we must seek in ourselves for the responsibility and the wisdom we once prayed some deity might have.” MenWorldWholeGodHandsMightChoicesResponsibilityTakenDangerGloryTestsWhole WorldFearfulDeitiesLiving ThingsUnpreparedGodlikeLife Or DeathLordship Book:America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
“Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As an aside, it is now amazing to me how much of the advice from my elders in those days has not come true. I have not gone blind or deaf, despite some early teen advice to the contrary. The only time I was ever involved in a car accident, I was taken to hospital, but no one seemed to take the slightest bit of notice as to whether I had on clean underwear or not. I have, as yet, been unable to test the nymph and heaven advice.)” HeavenBitsGoneTakenSeaAdviceCarInvolvedRiversTestsBlindCleanFishesAccidentsContraryDespiteBoatLakesFishingHospitalsMentorOnly TimeDeafEldersFloatsUnderwearCar AccidentNymphsClean Underwear Author:Tony Bishop
“There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?” PeopleTryingHas BeensSchoolYoungTurnsStruggleCreativeTakenStudentsCollegeTrainingEnlightenmentTestsOppositesConstantTrainEducationalDebtPassingPassingsConformityTrapsInquiryImposingIndoctrinationEducational SystemConstant StruggleVocational TrainingPassing A Test Author:Noam Chomsky
“I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs in my life and I never will. Over the course of my career I have taken hundreds of drugs tests and every single one has been negative.” LifeHas BeensCoursesCareersTakenDrugNegativeTestsPerformancesPerformance Enhancing Drugs Author:Mohamed Farah
“All great tasks test our motivation. It's easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like most things taken home from bars, new challenges arise the next day. It's in the morning light when work begins, and grand ideas (or barroom conquests) lose their luster. To do interesting things requires work and it's no surprise we abandon demanding passions for simpler, easier, more predictable things.” WorldIdeasHomeLightMotivationPassionNextEasyLosesChallengesInterestingMorningTakenEasierTasksTestsCourtSurpriseBarsAriseBeerChanging The WorldAbandonNext DayConquestPredictableInteresting ThingsNew ChallengesNapkinsLusterMorning Light Author:Scott Berkun