#ding

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#defending #does #duty #guilt #itself

According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#alcohol #decision #faced #making #months

According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#african #african americans #american #among #association

It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#advance #alcohol #conversations #critical #decision

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#assume #children #come #conception #grinding

'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#big #big government #got #government #hello

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are. ↗

— Martha Beck

#asia #available #become #expectations #experience

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#discloses #disguises #foolish #lack #their

This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe. ↗

— Michael Behe

#beginning #creation #distant #event #expanding

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age. ↗

— Michael Behe

#been #beyond #cell #examples #history