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Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
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I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now?…
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[T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you…
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Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance
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If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood…
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How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need…
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Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by…
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Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in…
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If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.
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The writer’s life is a life of revisions.
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When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world…
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If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into…
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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual…
— Sam Wineburg
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There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a…
— Ayn Rand
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When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or…
— Sam Harris
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[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and…
— George Orwell
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It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's…
— Bertrand Russell
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Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.
— Jonathan Franzen
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I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where…
— Bertrand Russell
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Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.
— Max Weber
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