If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.
If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.
Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.
The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.
Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.
Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue?
In general the 53 countries on the continent of Africa have made great progress towards freedom and democracy, and in terms of electing good, sound administrations.
When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.
Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.