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The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war making in the cumbersome legislature was not to disadvantage us against future enemies, but to disincline us toward war as a general matter... With ci...

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

Love. Passion. Belief. Duty. The lines blur sometomes. There are ove fifteen recognised mjor religions on this planet. One religion believes something different from another, and yet so often it's just the same thing with a different name, or a diffe...

The Twilight Streets

There is nothing passive about mindfulness. One might even say that it expresses a specific kind of passion—a passion for discerning what is subjectively real in every moment. It is a mode of cognition that is, above all, undistracted, accepting, a...

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.

Life Is Worth Living

God's being good does not somehow magically make all Christians good.

From A To Theta: Taking The Tricky Subject Of Religion And Explaining Why It Makes Sense In A Way We Can All Understand

If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what ma...

Daniel Tammet

The CIA has acknowledged that it has detained about 100 terrorists since 9/11, and about a third of them have been subjected to what the CIA refers to as 'enhanced interrogation tactics,' and only a small proportion of those have in fact been subject...

John O. Brennan

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going wh...

Ann Beattie

I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one, for natural philosophy without experiment is merely mathematical exercise, while experiment without mathematics will neither suf...

Life

Nothing matters when you are dead, and, you are dead when nothing matters.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I know music is subjective.

Joan Jett

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.

Kailash Satyarthi

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

Helen Rowland

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

Kary Mullis

Math - it's not my best subject.

Heather O'Rourke

After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the shell-shocked fragments the previous day had left him with. He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a li...

Douglas Adams

Politically, foreign policy never matters until it matters, and then it matters a lot.

Marco Rubio

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Albert Einstein

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

Arthur Balfour

...we, as human beings, do not "enable" God to do anything. We are subject to His divine will---it is not the other way around. He is our Creator, and we are subject to Him.

The Judas Epidemic: Exposing the Betrayal of the Christian Faith in Church and Government