214th Mpad Quotes & Sayings

Eric Schlosser's book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their children to fast-food restaurants. I shall certainly never do that again. He employs a long, cold burn, a quiet and impassioned accumulation of detail, with calm, wit and clarity. ( ... ) Fast Food Nation is witness to the rigour and seriousness of the best American journalism, readable, reliable and extremely carefully done. — Adam Nicolson

The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort. How do we practice with difficulty, with our emotions, with the unpredictable encounters of an ordinary day? — Pema Chodron

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations. — Andy Hargreaves

Conversely, the biophilia hypothesis, as Wilson calls it, also explains why we find natural settings so peaceful. It's in our genes. That's why, each year, more people visit zoos than attend all sporting events combined. — Eric Weiner

It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it. — Bernie Sanders

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality. — John Ortberg

The identity of the Antichrist is, of course, less important than the fact that there is an Antichrist. No one cares much what the Antichrist says or does, but they feel better knowing he's around. In this way, he is much like the pope or the United Nations. — Robert Kroese

Now for reasons that have to do with the increase of the artificial, the move away from ancestral and natural models, and the loss in robustness owing to complications in the design of everything, the role of Black Swans in increasing. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events. — Honore De Balzac

The whole thing with contouring is to contour where your natural cheekbone would be and where sun would hit you naturally. — Katherine Schwarzenegger