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- European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience…
- At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.
- In a media culture, we not only judge strangers by how they look but by the images of how they look. So we want attractive…
- In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carolina for the secular, liberal, multi-ethnic, intense culture of Princeton…
- The Taliban outlawed wearing polish in the late 1990s, punishing some offenders by amputating a fingertip. Importing polish was banned only in July 2001, which…
- Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work most people will…
- Americans hate their cable companies - for bumbling installers, on-again-off-again transmissions, peculiar channel selections, and indifferent customer service. The only thing cable subscribers hate more…
- A lot of consumers actively enjoy advertising, especially fashion print ads and clever TV commercials. The nostalgic cable channel TVLand features not only vintage shows…
- The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only…
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- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle