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Four Essential Elements That Engender Trust (Chapter 8) 1. Credibility 2. Reliability 3. Intimacy 4.

If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

The weather gods are toying with us. - Dr. James Stagg

it is always dangerous to treat simultaneity as causation

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society: or fear of oneself. He was not afraid of himself. But he was quite consciously afraid of society, which he knew by instinct to be a malevolent, partly-insane beast.

Seattle's ambivalence and Oklahoma City's hunger permeated everything.

the kingdom the first radical "won," as Alinsky so thoughtlessly puts it, was hell.

My responsibility as a "revolutionary" was to hurt the United States.

Since the progressive doctrine of The Silent Spring was implemented, three million people have died of malaria every year for more than thirty years, adding up to a total now of nearly 100 million. Ninety-five percent of the victims have been black African children under the age of five. As a footnote to this tragedy, Carson's claim that DDT was harmful to birds has since been discredited.

Criticism of religion is the very measure of the guarantee of free speech — the literal sacred institution of society.102

Because there is only one salvation left for Germany, and that is Hitler.

Kanban, while Japanese, is less metaphorical than Drum-Buffer-Rope.

Thus you get everything from this book that C. S. Lewis would want. The story drives the truth into your heart, and the Scripture behind the story drives it into your mind.

the most famous of all those who had an acquaintance with cryptology in the Middle Ages was an English customs official, amateur astronomer, and literary genius named Geoffrey Chaucer.

Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.

Self-sacrifice ends in pain and death. It is rational selfishness that leads to health, happiness, love, and trust.

It was Von Choltitz who had given the order in May 1940 to firebomb the inner city of Rotterdam

His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.

next to it was a dvd called 'as i get laid dying,' which had a hospital scene on the front. it was like grey's anatomy, only with less grey and more anatomy.

there's no such thing as a fuck cure. a fuck cure is like the adult version of santa claus

You ask me some questions And I give you some answers But nothing that would make you understand.

His eyes are a little together, but man, are they green.

I was still trying to impress you, and I still wanted to be impressed by you, so I could pass along pieces of your impressiveness in stories to my friends, convincing myself this was possible.

The brief transcript of moments, written on the body, is so deeply satisfying to read.