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- I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense…
- Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American…
- To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms.…
- You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.
- Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there…
- The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
- It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright…
- Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine…
- Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time…
- One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting,…
- Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to…
- Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
- The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can…
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
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- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong