#kindlehighlight

of the authors’ imagination and used fictitiously. Emerald Green Desiree Holt ↗

— Desiree Holt

#imagination

with few apparent connections to Afghanistan as such, but there were no calls to bomb Riyadh (imagine if the hijackers had been Iraqi). Rather, Saudi Arabia is a favoured ally in the 'war against terrorism'. It is obvious that at stake here are US geopolitical interests (discussed further below), more than concerns to prevent future terrorism. ↗

— Mark Curtis

#imagination

Imagine what the world might have been like if Larry and Sergey instead became professors or took a job at Microsoft. ↗

— Jared Tame

#imagination

Indeed, kids who start lying at two or three—or who can control verbal leakage at four or five—do better on other tests of academic prowess. “Lying is related to intelligence,” confirmed Talwar, “but you still have to deal with it. ↗

— Po Bronson

#intelligence

Self-knowledge liberates us from the frustration of ignorance, while simultaneously nurturing and supporting our capacity for intelligence. Objectivity ↗

— Charles Hayes

#intelligence

He fell in love with a skinny stray cat that would skulk around the dining hall during meals. Every day, Jake would offer it sausage or egg from breakfast and pepperoni or hamburger from lunch. Every day, it ran away from him. But Jake didn’t give up. Even when he had the stomach flu, he snuck out of the infirmary to try to feed it. He was not going to let it down. He would watch it from classroom windows. He even made up a poem about it that he sent home to his mother in a letter. Three months later, the little cat was finally hungry enough to trust him. It never occurred to Jake that the cat... ↗

— Sarah Addison Allen

#love

First, love one another very deeply, and don’t be ashamed to express your love openly and often. Also, enjoy one another, and guard zealously your time together so as to enjoy it to the fullest extent. ↗

— Laura Greenwald

#love

But here is the truly shocking statistic: nearly all of that money is devoted to treating symptoms. ↗

— Jr.

#money

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#money

Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics. ↗

— Daniel H. Pink

#motivational