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It's not an intellectual mistake.

I still prefer 'pre-Cleavage' but it makes an unfortunate pun in English

I paid it nuts, Billy. What would you think I'd pay a squirrel?

My task is changed: not to uphold the law, or another law, but to maintain the skin that keeps law in place. Two laws in two places, in fact.

He was cheered by this. He was a scientist, not a mystic.

What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry.

This is kraken year zero," Moore said. "This is Anno Teuthis. We're in the end times. What d'you think's been going on?

You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts.

The Geeta is a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Upanishads.

If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community?

Joseph Conrad was a thoroughgoing racist. That this simple truth is glossed over in criticisms of his work is due to the fact that white racism against Africa is such a normal way of thinking that its manifestations go completely unremarked.

He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought: The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger.

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

Here's our three-part recipe to create more moments of elevation: (1) Boost the sensory appeal; (2) Raise the stakes; (3) Break the script. Usually elevated moments have 2 or 3 of those traits.

Divorce Busting, by Michele Weiner-Davis [Relationships]. Anyone in a relationship can benefit from this book by a practitioner of solutions-focused therapy.

he has announced an even tougher commitment device: Now he'll take four months of vacation per year. This would appear to commit him to becoming French.

The Rider loves to contemplate and analyze, and, making matters worse, his analysis is almost always directed at problems rather than at bright spots. (You

To be surprising, an event's can't be predictable. Surprise is the opposite of predictability. But, to be satisfying, surprise must be "post-dictable.

making messages "emotional" is to make people care.

Our good intentions to create these moments are often frustrated by urgent-seeming problems and pressures.

Without clear priorities to draw on, the decision will be made idiosyncratically, depending on the employee's mood at the moment.

Notice the similarities here: The recognition is spontaneous—not part of a scheduled feedback session—and it is targeted at particular behaviors.

human-scale principle allows us to bring our intuition to bear in assessing whether the content of a message is credible.