- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, the ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control that can lead you to be shattered.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we have emotions of fear and pity toward the hero of a tragedy, we explore aspects of our own vulnerability in a safe and pleasing setting.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among the good and decent men, some are unprepared for the surprises of life, and their good intentions run aground when confronted with issues like child care.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear is ubiquitous in human life. It starts in infancy with our primal state of helplessness, where we can see what's going on but we can't move to get it. As we grow older we become a little more able to get what we want but then we're going to die so that gives fear another boost.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've been betrayed by a spouse or a partner, it's much easier to focus on causing that person pain than it is to turn forward and actually create a life that's worthy of you in the future.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to music. I particularly love Mozart.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men in particular think that they have achieved something if they can make a woman mad, particularly if she is calm and intellectual.
- Extricate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, we feel helpless in lots of situations in our lives. The way anger gets a grip on us is it seems to be a way to extricate ourselves from helplessness.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People - and I think this is particularly true of Americans - don't like to be passive. They like to seize control.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't express anything without being very thoughtful.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My high school did not offer courses in philosophy, so the books that initially stimulated philosophical reflection in me were novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an undergraduate, I studied the Greek and Roman classics, and I went to graduate school in classics intending to work on the presentation of moral issues in various Greek and Roman tragedies.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
What all emotions have in common, and what distinguishes them from bodily appetites, is a focus on an object and a view of that object as salient for one's life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching has always been a very important part of my life. It is one of the ways I contribute to society. It is also a source of energy and insight.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the whole, the accommodationist position has been dominant in U.S. law and public culture ─ ever since George Washington wrote a famous letter to the Quakers explaining that he would not require them to serve in the military because the 'conscientious scruples of all men' deserve the greatest 'delicacy and tenderness.'
- Coercive
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people think that women only wear the burqa because of coercive pressure, let them create ample opportunities for them, at the same time enforce laws making primary and secondary education compulsory, and then see what women actually do.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020