Dec 1, 2008
“Bullying is a common response when people struggle to attain status. Backstabbing, rumor-mongering, and enticement
aren’t unique to teenagers; just look in any corporate office or political campaign.
Bullying in schools hasn’t increased because of the Internet, but its visibility has. Adults think that this means that the Internet is the culprit, but stifling bullying online won’t make it go away; it’ll just send it back underground.
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Nov 29, 2008
Q: As the Internet shortens our attention span, do you think the Kindle will lengthen it?
Jeff Bezos: Yes, I think people will read more, not less.
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Nov 29, 2008
“The richest evolution in Earth’s history was associated with the transition from single-celled to multi-celled life. This transition generated most of the complex forms and processes that we know today: morphology, physiology, ecology, behavior, nervous systems, etc. The complexity of multi-celled organisms does not arise because many cells stick together, but rather because the many cells have differentiated into functionally different cell types which work together.
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Nov 28, 2008
“In 1847, midway through the Great Irish Famine, a group of American Indian
Choctaws collected $710 (over $1 million today) to help. It had been just 16 years since the Choctaw people had experienced starvation in the
Trail of Tears. To mark the 150th anniversary, eight Irish people retraced the Trail of Tears in 1992.
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Nov 23, 2008
“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past.
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Nov 17, 2008
“An opportunity is basically a chance to practice.
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Nov 16, 2008
“What presidential candidates say is, at best, an imperfect guide to their actions in office. What proves to be a more reliable indicator of presidential behavior is a candidate’s
roster of advisers.
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Nov 16, 2008
“Since I do not want my private conversations looked at by those out to embarrass, the only course of action is not to correspond in cyberspace.
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George W. Bushi in his final email (1999) as G94B@aol.com before becoming President of the United States, leader of the free world
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Nov 15, 2008
yelp community: Malta And Co supported the hateful, discriminatory Proposition 8 marriage ban. Refuse to give it your business.
Malta and Co: My mother made the donation believing we were supporting marriage rights for all Californians. We started receiving calls a day before the election, and my mother realized her mistake. We immediately made a donation to “No on 8”, but that will not take our company off of the Yes on 8 donation list.
We believe many voters who voted well in advance of the last minute campaigning were confused and erroneously voted yes like my mother.
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Nov 12, 2008
“True freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.
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