- Nov 07, 2020
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- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge your mind to become more responsive, more critical, bigger.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to talk about the regulation of financial markets because that is not my sphere of expertise. It's a very complicated topic, and if I have written a number of books they are always on topics that I think I know something about.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. has always understood itself to be united around political principles and not around culture, whereas the nations of Europe have a much more traditional conception of nationhood that is connected to romanticism, which thinks of religion and culture as ingredients of nationhood.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
We see unreasoning fear driving a certain amount of public policy, perhaps more in Europe than in the U.S.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very impatient.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was four I joined a group of girls who were talking about their party dresses. I thought they were imagining, so I imagined a fantastic pink velvet dress with lots of jewels. But they were simply describing what they actually wore, and they had utter contempt for my obvious fiction. After that, I never joined a group again.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't waste time despising people.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to be a student in Rabindranath Tagore's school in Santiniketan in around 1915, dancing in the dance-dramas he wrote.
- Critically
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, I agree with Socrates that what democracies badly need is the examined life, and we need to think critically about ourselves.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to address anger, fear, and then to think about what the alternatives are: hope, faith, a certain kind of brotherly love. And then you have to set yourself to cultivate those.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of people get hope through civic organizations and through their churches.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I sometimes find that members of my family are reading completely different news from what I'm reading, because they're not reading general interest newspapers at all. They're getting all their news from certain Internet sites that are rather political.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Envy, propelled by fear, can be even more toxic than anger, because it involves the thought that other people enjoy the good things of life which the envier can't hope to attain through hard work and emulation.
- Compounds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disgust for the female body is always tinged with anxiety, since the body symbolizes mortality.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
American men do have genuine reasons for anxiety. The traditional jobs that many men have filled are disappearing, thanks to automation and outsourcing. The jobs that remain require, in most cases, higher education, which is increasingly difficult for non-affluent families to afford.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020