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I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs.
To gain control over the quality of experience, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day out.
Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.
The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.
Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.
It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.
Anything is possible, and that’s something we should not lose sight of. The inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.
So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later.
There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.
The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation.
It has been said of many modern Christian theologians that their primary aim is to find ways to express disbelief as belief.
Creativity does not derive from order but from the attempt to impose order where it does not exist, to make new connections.
Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.
People with psychopathy are very good at reading the minds of their victims. That's probably most clearly seen in deception.
Reason necessarily expresses itself through emotions and emotions are healthy only insofar as they are expressions of reason.
Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.
We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.
Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.
We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones
The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.
The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.
Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.
Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.
A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it.
A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.
It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.
It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.
I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.
Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.
There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.
Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.
Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.'
If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the present one.
Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.
If we are kind and considerate, people will want to be around us, and we benefit from enduring circles of attention and care.
In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.
Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.
The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say."
One of the principles of the Trump administration is that we will never sacrifice our economy on the altar of foreign policy.
It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.
The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.
I feel very strongly that we need to give beef cattle a really good life. When they go to slaughter, it needs to be painless.
Economic and technical imperatives - not any preconceived directives - will keep propelling the process of energy transition.
God does not need us or the rest of creation for anything, yet we and the rest of creation can glorify him and bring him joy.
This ocean circulation, a northbound current that sinks and then moves southbound, tends to go through multi-decadal changes.
When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea.
The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.