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- Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being…
- Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve lost the idea…
- Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the undivided…
- No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the knower and…
- The winters will drive you crazy until you learn to get out into them.
- In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the…
- Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be.…
- As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly.…
- I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do…
- We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save…
- The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms their thinking about…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong