Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate sit...
What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirmin...
Simin: Your daughter's future isn't important to you? Judge: There are a lot of children who live in this country. You say none of them have a future? Simin: I prefer my child doesn't grow up in this situation. I have the right as a mother. Judge: Wh...
Hey, I am thinking of it myself, in this part of world (East), we all do endeavors in praying and are sweating (white liquid) and this is our situation, frustrated , but on the other part of world (West) ,they are enjoying in party and drinking liquo...
Finding a new ethics or esthetics, as Dr. Douglass asks, will not put us in a state of grace. Existence is not given meaning by importing it into a revelation from the outside. The meaning is —there, in more closely contacting the actual situation,...
General Ralph Landry: You know, when they forced Khruschev out, he sat down and wrote two letters to his successor. He said - "When you get yourself into a situation you can't get out of, open the first letter, and you'll be safe. When you get yourse...
The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
No matter what chains are broken, slavery is a condition of the heart.
The ordinary can be like medicine.
What will be will be, so your determination is just extra-ordinary participant .
It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.
I couldn't shake this feeling that I had uncovered more than something ordinary.
Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference.
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.
I'm a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life.