#oda

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson. ↗

— Emo Philips

#dollars #down #feel #fifth #fifty

You could ask me to teach you.” “Huh?” This night is getting weird in a hurry. “Teach me like you’re teaching a class or something? What are you going to call it: ‘You Too Can Be a Sociopath 101’?” “It would be more like a graduate-level class.” I start to snicker. His sense of humour sneaks up on you. Then I remember who’s talking and bite it off. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#funny #humor #iced #mega #ryodan

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#big business #big government #business #fear #government

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#creed #fanaticism #fashionable #multiplication #table

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#accommodations #acquisition #always #assimilation #becomes

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#form #more #often #practicality #than

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#explanation #genetics #intellectuals #invokes #mind

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun. ↗

— Pink

#before #charting #course #easier #ever

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#because #claims #clash #connections #empirical

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different. ↗

— Rick Pitino

#every #get #hard #individual #like