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I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark.
We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.
Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.
The central task of our time is to evolve a new system of world order based on principles of peace and justice.
A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.
I don’t think books can change the world, but when the world begins to change, it searches for different books.
Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.
People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?
When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.
The history of energy use is a sequence of transitions to sources that are cheaper, cleaner, and more flexible.
Kant does not regard freedom as an item of faith because it is too basic to our agency to be related to any end.
Education is a right, it's a journey, it's a process, and it's something we have to stand for, as hard as it is.
The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.
Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.
If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.
Most of the stuff that parades as drug education in this country is just rubbish with no foundation in evidence.
Very much as men project weird fantasies on women, the people in New York project weird fantasies on California.
I tend to look at potential investments from the standpoint of whether it is a valuable contribution to society.
Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.
Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.
I can't tell you how many times I heard from younger sisters that their older sisters were bossy and judgmental.
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.
It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence."
My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.
If you are not thinking correctly, you are not living correctly. What you believe will determine how you behave.
I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change. No longer than a decade at most.
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.
The success of ordinary cosmology speaks against the idea that the universe was created in a random fluctuation.
Malcolm X had a clear vision and an understanding that we were - that he was a part of a broad freedom struggle.
You have a choice. Either you can have more oil, or more clean water. Fracking is not good for the water supply.
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.
But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.
The best thing about having a lady professor on campus is that it tells women students that they can do it, too.
The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.
The high-tech industry needs the immigration of highly qualified labor, from India, from China, from everywhere.
No job should, be beneath us. And if you can't(or won't) sort mail, Where is the proof that you can do anything?
Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.
The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?
Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish.
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
You can tame feral cats, but you are never gonna get them like a cat that's been socialized at a very young age.
Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.
Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.