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“In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.”

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To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.

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Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it.

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Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.

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A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out…

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The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

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Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

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The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

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Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and…

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[A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism.

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Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.

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To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.

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I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its…

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Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

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Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon when making decisions or encountering situations. Emotional expression by contrast can mean being driven by emotions, so that it isn't possible to think. These two things are often confused, because we are still uncomfortable with…

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I believe in the people of our state and making sure the voices of the people of our state are heard in Washington. And…

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I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.

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There's this one song called 'Final Warning' that I'm really excited about because I love the contrast of my vocal sounding very soothing and…

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Trump conducts meetings and actually tries to get something done rather than just have the meeting and rather than just announce a framework and rather than just touch on bullet points or outline points and to speak in large terms about what our four-year objectives are. My guess is that Trump gets in there, rolls up the sleeves, and starts…

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In a way, human beings have never been part of the natural order; we're not biological in the normal sense. Normal biological animals stop eating when they're not hungry and stop breeding when there is no sense in breeding. By contrast, human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When…

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On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions and established artistic conventions, or antagonism towards the public (as representative of the existing order). By contrast any positive programme tends to be claimed as exclusive property by isolated and even mutually antagonistic sub-groups. So modern…

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One of the most durable successes of the war on poverty was to dramatically reduce the number of elderly poor in America. That's still true today. But, by contrast, child poverty has shot up over the last few years: A decade ago, about 16 percent of children in America were poor - which is a shockingly high percentage. But it's…

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