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We shouldn't just allow gay marriage. We should insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous that two people could…
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People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least…
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I've come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other…
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To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of…
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How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to…
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A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants…
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People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time.
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We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep…
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Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character…
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The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world,…
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The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.
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It’s easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose. First, it makes everything so simple. The economic crisis…
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The roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself. They are always in the wider historical context. They require…
— David Brooks
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I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being…
— Georgina Chapman
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I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he…
— Reza Aslan
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Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which…
— Raymond Queneau
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I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized…
— Alfonso Cuaron
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It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
— Warren Christopher
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Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.
— Josh McDowell
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you…
— Salman Rushdie
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There are very few critics who have historical context or authority.
— Twyla Tharp
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The popular story is that America was built by immigrants and that, therefore, everything about immigration is good and leads to a…
— James Howard Kunstler
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I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they…
— Robert Towne
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