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Our design is so flawed, so take everything and fill the gaps with selfless love.

Historical fiction isn't history in the conventional sense and shouldn't be judged as such. The best historical novels are loyal to history, but it is a history absorbed and set to music

In the eight-case system there is a tendency for precision of function while in the five-case system there is more room to see an author using a particular form to convey a fuller meaning than that of one function.

Capitalism, it is said, is a system wherein man exploits man. And communism—is vice versa.

For a moment, all movement ceases and the scene is one of crystalline stillness, silent except for a slow, melodramatic heartbeat.

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.

From this amphibious ill-born mob beganThat vain, ill-natur'd thing, an Englishman.

Vietnam to defend democracy, and remembers me responding that the Saigon regime was no democracy.

Reframing the discussion from mental health to brain health changes everything. People begin to see their problems as medical, not moral. It decreases shame and guilt and increases forgiveness and compassion from their families

the recent discovery that your habits and emotions can impact your biology so deeply that it causes changes in the genes that are transmitted to the next several generations.

The reality of the moment is so palpable and powerful that it holds imagination in a tight orbit from which it never fully escapes.

Dependency carries with it resentment. that's inevitable. If people believe they cannot survive without each other, a relationship can be more like a prison than a partnership.

But the most common negative emotion—and the second most common emotion of any kind—was regret. The only emotion mentioned more often than regret was love.

That sleepless guy wasn't a hero. He was a fool

bringing our understanding of motivation into the twenty-first century is more than an essential move for business. It's an affirmation of our humanity.

Moral regrets make up the smallest of the four categories in the deep structure of regret, representing only about 10 percent of the total regrets. But for many of us, these regrets ache the most and last the longest. They are also more complex than the other core regrets.

Moral regrets make up the smallest of the four categories in the deep structure of regret, representing only about 10 percent of the total regrets.

The left hemisphere specializes in text; the right hemisphere specializes in context.

not-so-interesting jobs require direction; non-routine, more interesting work depends on self-direction.

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan

A Geography of Time: Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist (1997) By Robert V. Levine

As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.