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Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it. ”
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty. ”
Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. ”
The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it. ”
With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature. ”
Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can't curb their enthusiasm when they're in a hall of dinosaurs and mammoths and mammoth hunters and trilobites and giant fish that could chomp up a shark. These natural objects in motion and context make kids want to read; you can't stop them from reading and thinking. ”
I know, being a father myself, what my interpretation of true love is, or the essence of love, and you can apply it to other things besides human beings. ”
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. ”
I believe there are certainly racial problems in this country, and I believe that peaceful solutions can help bring the races together. ”
To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization. ”