AnonymousThinkers

The 10,000 hour rules is a bit deceptive in that the original study, which focuses on violin students, suggests that the best students have logged the nice round number of 10,000 hours by the time they were precisely twenty years old, a time at which they proved to be 'very good' but a long way to go from top in their field.

The 2nd Amendment is, for the framers, such that any true second amendment revolution would have to involve a massive rising of the entire American people, nothing smaller. The framers were quick to condemn local uprisings as rebellions, not true revolutions.

The 4th Amendment is often associated with the idea, deeply embedded in english common law, that a man's home is his castle.

The 5th Amendment is limited to the government compelling individuals to testify against themselves. As a result, requiring physical evidence such as blood, urine, and hair samples rather than testimony from individuals is not a violation of their fifth amendment guarantees.

The 5th Amendment protects individuals from self-incrimination in criminal proceedings, not in rulings involving personal matters such as drug-testing policies.

Abortion is permissible for Jews —- a fetus is a fetus until it gets out of medical school.

An Abstract object is like with a perfect triangle or, a language, does not exist in space or time and cannot have any causal effect on space time but exist in some important way.

An Academic is a person whose job it was to tell us how to solve the problems of life which he himself had avoided by becoming a professor.

The Accordion is a terrible instrument. As they say, a gentleman is a man who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

Action is rare compared with talk. After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Action is what people judge by, not their intentions, for even a hard-boiled egg has a heart of gold.