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If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twen...

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Christopher HitchensA Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, un...

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How happy is the little stoneThat rambles in the road alone,And doesn't care about careers,And exige...

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If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and ther...

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Cognitive science has something of enormous importance to contribute to human freedom: the ability t...

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George LakoffPhilosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of p...

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Harold BloomThe Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful co...

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Work done off the paid job is looked down upon if not ignored. autonomous activity threatens the emp...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and him...

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There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the ...

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My family subscribed to this rigid belief system. They were unaware of the reality that gender, like...

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Janet MockRedefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, fo...

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She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themsel...

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Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to man...

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There's a line in the picture where he (Johnny - The Wild One) snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.'...

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As a woman I am so curious about prostitutes because of the idea that they know men better than you....

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When God “saves” people in this life, by working through His Spirit to bring them to faith, and by l...

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The insistent drums were an unwelcome reminder of the existence of another world, wholly autonomous,...

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The greatest power one human being can exert over others is to control their perceptions of reality,...

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Philip K. DickPhilip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

And one thing we know is real: horror. It is so real, in fact, that we cannot be sure it could not e...

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The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it p...

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Malcolm X and Edmund Burke shared an appreciation of this important insight, this painful truth--tha...

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Thomas SzaszCeremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs

It is mainly by resisting authority that the individual defines himself. This is why authorities--wh...

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Thomas SzaszCeremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs

Come, said my SoulSuch verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,)That should I after death i...

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Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.You must travel it by yourself.It is not far. It...

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True autonomy is preceded by the experience of being dependent. True liberation can be found only be...

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Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees ...

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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Red...

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