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On Representing the Views of Others
I often told my PhD students that it wasn’t necessary or wise to exaggerate or distort the views of others in order to make their own case for their views. It wasn’t necessary to run down the work of previous scholars in order to justify their own work. All that was needed was to demonstrate some further contribution that their own work made to the subject, whether correcting, or supplementing, or reinforcing, or extending our understanding of it.
The pope praised him for providing for his parents; now Texas may want to deport them
Ortiz’s love for his father makes accepting the new Texas law all the more difficult, he said. He describes his father as a patriotic sort who taught his children at early ages to respect police and honor the U.S. flag.
“He’s kept a clean record. He raised us the right way,” Ortiz said. “Now, the people he taught us to look up to are the people who can deport him and decide what his future is.”
The Five Key Factors in Every Christian’s Sanctification
- God Changes You
- Truth Changes You
- Wise People Change You
- Suffering and Struggle Change You
- You Change
These Are The Six Red Flags That You’re Getting Bad Advice
- The person isn’t qualified
- The advice isn’t tailored to you
- The person talks but doesn’t listen
- The advice is focused on the end result and not the process
- The advice is emotionally charged
- The advice ruffles your instincts
A leading happiness researcher says we’re giving our kids bad advice about how to succeed in life
Many widely-held theories about what it takes to be successful are proving to be counterproductive.
Sure, they may produce results in the short term. But eventually, they lead to burnout and—get this—less success. Here are a few of the most damaging things many of us are currently teaching our children about success, and what to teach them instead.
Town reduces pedestrian-vehicle accidents at dangerous crosswalk to zero using this one simple move
A once-dangerous intersection hasn’t had a single pedestrian-motor vehicle accident in the past year after beginning use of an all-red phase traffic signal — stopping traffic in all directions for 26 seconds every few minutes.
Thousands sign up to clean sewage because they didn’t read the small print
Do you read the terms and conditions? Probably not. No one does. And so, inevitably, 22,000 people have now found themselves legally bound to 1000 hours of community service, including, but not limited to, cleaning toilets at festivals, scraping chewing gum off the streets and “manually relieving sewer blockages”.