The question, "When did you last listen to a poor person properly and try to understand what's going on inside their own experience?" enables you to connect.
Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.
What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.
You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!
Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what comes next, but what comes next may retrospectively transform our original understanding, highlighting some features of it and backgrounding others.
Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.
To measure success with material things is failure!
Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U. S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though I don't think that's what Obama meant.
Un homme avec Dieu est toujours dans la majorite. One man with God is always a majority.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.