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• Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.
• Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they…
• The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression,…
• Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
• People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them…
• History is full of surprises.
• Righteousness is easy in retrospect.
• Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In…
• All wars are popular for the first 30 days.
• Total separation of church and state was considered the best safeguard for the health of each. As [Andrew] Jackson explained, in refusing…
• Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
• Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

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