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A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man…
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Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.
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Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons.
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Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant…
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And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data.
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If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband…
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We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on…
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We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on…
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Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man…
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On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim…
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Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.
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We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance, with their…
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They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it…
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
— Maya Angelou
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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the…
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To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour,…
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Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.
— Emile Durkheim
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To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.
— Jean Baptiste Massillon
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For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting…
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Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the…
— Pope John Paul II
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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and…
— Robert Burns
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A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through…
— William Baldwin
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It’s a great feeling to be wanted but it’s more exciting to be inaccessible.
— Shreya Ghoshal
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Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that…
— James Russell Lowell
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