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I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.

Sebastian Thrun

Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.

Stephen M. Walt

My mother said the bizarre name Raccoona had surely been inspired, at least on a subliminal level, by the masks raccoons don't wear but simply have - the ones given them by nature..... [S]he pointed out that Le Guin had suspected all along that Racco...

The Blazing World

[...] at this point the God-understanding stuff kind of makes him want to puke, from fear. Something you can't see or hear or touch or smell: OK. All right. But something you can't even feel? Because that's what he feels when he tries to understand s...

Infinite Jest

Any philosophy, whether of a religious or political nature - and sometimes the dividing line is hard to determine - fights less for the negative destruction of the opposing ideology than for the positive promotion of its own. Hence its struggle is le...

Mein Kampf

It didn't help that I was never allowed to study anything remotely contemporary until the last year of university: there was never any sense of leading to . If anything, my education gave me the opposite impression, of an end to cultural history roun...

More Baths, Less Talking

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man think...

Mere Christianity

Her experience had been of a kind to teach her, rightly or wrongly, that the doubtful honor of a brief transit through a sorry world hardly called for effusiveness, even when the path was suddenly irradiated at some half-way point by daybeams rich as...

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Is it true that man was once perfectly pure and innocent, and that he became degenerate by disobedience? No. The real truth is, and the history of man shows, that he has advanced. Events, like the pendulum of a clock have swung forward and backward, ...

Some Mistakes of Moses

[Knowing God]... call it love, yes, only that can sound too emotional, or call it faith, and that can sound too cerebral. And what is it? Both, and neither... [its] the decision to be faithful, the patient refusal of easy gratifications... of Jesus' ...

Tokens of Trust

I don't know where this pressure came from. I can't blame my parents because it has always felt internal. Like any other parent, my mother celebrated the A grades and the less-than-A grades she felt there was no need to tell anybody about. But not ac...

Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

While much psychology emphasizes the familial causes of angst in humans, the cultural component carries as much weight, for culture is the family of the family. If the family of the family has various sicknesses, then all families within that culture...

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

They had pulled me from the hemorrhaging, dying body of my mother and turned me over to the care of the man who was not my father. He had taken me home to their tiny apartment above the old hardware store and done what little he knew to take care of ...

Filter

You can walk around this culture now, as a proud supporter of the so called anti-war movement and it's made up of a lot of people I used to know … I'd like for them to be asked more often than they are, if your advice had been taken over the last 1...

Christopher Hitchens

Imagine if all the car makers in the world were to sit down together to design one extremely simple, embellishment-free, functional car that was made from the most environmentally-sustainable materials, how cheap to buy and humanity-and-Earth-conside...

Jeremy Griffith

Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.

The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears

I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackling things.

Cosmic Ordering Guide

As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it.

Culpa Innata

We have too quickly bought into the lie that we’ll be happier with more—and as a result, too often miss the joy that comes from owning less.

Clutterfree with Kids

One day, promised herself as she lay abed, one day she would allow herself to be less than strong.

A Clash of Kings

Science is a broad church full of narrow minds, trained to know ever more about even less.

Coral: A Pessimist In Paradise