Porous self — In the ancient/medieval social imaginary, the self is open and vulnerable to the enchanted “outside” world—susceptible to grace, possession. Contrast with buffered self.

Age of Authenticity

Age of Mobilization

Ancien regime

Buffered self

Closed world structures

Cross-pressure

Excarnation

Exclusive humanism

Expressive individualism

Fragilization

Fullness

Immanent frame

Immanentization

Maximal demand

Modern moral order

Nova effect

Reform

Secular 1

Secular 2

Secular 3

Secularism

Social imaginary

Spin

Subtraction stories

Take

Transformation perspective

Unthought

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that.

My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.

A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.

Skiing not only for yourself and your family, but for your country, was surreal. The amount of support I got from back home in Indiana was insane.

If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

I am not merely a baseball player. I am a black man who has done what he wants, gotten what he wanted, and will continue to get it.

My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it's about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

I've always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we'll have.

If you've got five cameras, you're making sure that you're in the right position for each one of the cameras.

Business leaders shape public opinion.

I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.

Investing capital in the free market creates innovation, businesses, jobs and economic growth. Investing capital in the government creates more bureaucracy, more paperwork and inefficiency.

My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.

Whether you think you can, or think you can’t - you’re right.

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.