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The advance of standard English culture was less assisted by government policy than by the sheer weight, wealth, and number of England's well-established cultural institutions. ”
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. ”
Unless progress with agricultural yields remains very strong, the next century will experience sheer human misery that, on a numerical scale, will exceed the worst of everything that has come before. ”
Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again. ”
However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant. ”
It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar. ”
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. ”
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. ”
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. ”
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it. ”