Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. Advice from your friends is like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad. Never spe...
forget. One idea he got for Fahrenheit 451 was from a police officer. He was walking with a friend on a empty sidewalk. The officer had pulled over and was talking to them about being a pedestrian. That idea was later used to describe a character getting shot for “being a pedestrian”...
Thoughts that come to men stem from their participation in society or their natural state of good and evil. However, society’s morals mask the natural man—who is more vulnerable to natural evil than good. Because of this, every man is susceptible to ignorance and savagery. William Golding ...
It’s good to look at life pragmatically, rather than as how we might want it to be. Taking care of our bodies is intelligent enough; we certainly don’t want to get old and infirm prematurely. We don’t want to lose our sense of curiosity and interest in life, our spark. But the...
The teachings describe three kinds of suffering. The first is called the suffering of suffering. This means the suffering that we as normal people tangibly feel, such as physical pain and mental anxiety. The second is called the suffering of change. As we mentioned earlier, everything that is...
But in the high energy world of the micro, the time intervals are shorter, the energies higher, and the measurements and mathematics to describe all this has to be more exacting. It's not too surprising that some of these models yield similar results because at their extremes they o...
“Aromachemical” is a catch-all term used to describe these fragrant materials, though it typically connotes materials that are either isolates or bases. Now that we have that out of the way, let’s take a look at how commercial fragrances are created. The easiest way to do that is to...
are afraid to say, “Yes, I deserve it.” –Maya Angelou To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. –Maya Angelou Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice ...
Finally, the place to put "acquired" in the handler thread was basically pre-determined: right after it gets the address of a request and before touching any data associated with this request. All in all, these Inspector annotations describe well the logical synchronization through the mailbox,...
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge. Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us...