Reputation is not free, and there is no respect on credit.

Parents are not biological Xerox machines, spinning out poor copies of poor copies of long-forgotten originals. When we raise children, we are producing original emergent content.

Denial is a stubborn anchor that prevents the boat from leaving a bad harbor; you have to pull it up so that you can sail on.

The human species is a wild symphony of individual difference. Human differentiation is key to our species’ adaptability to unforeseen shifts in our world.

Semantics cannot be essential to the transcendent.

It is not enough for the speaker to use words that can mean what is intended; she must try to use words that cannot mean anything else.

The Great Ones are for most of their lives very much like the rest of us.

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