"Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves."

-- Edward Hirsch

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“My father is a cultural anthropologist and my mother ran an outpatient clinic and treated a lot of people who had been institutionalised. I was very fascinated with behaviour and criminology and why people do things that don't make any sense. I would probe my mother: "Why? Why would somebody do this?" And look for some causality between someone's mental state and their behaviour. I think it had a lot of influence on me.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.”
“There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are the foolishness of the world, such as the desire to eat off silver plates. Desire is a wild horse to be tamed. Virtue is a habit long continued. The taming of desire is like the training of the athlete. Discipline is not the restraint but the use of energy. . . . When I forbid myself what I may have, no person is going to tempt me with what is truly forbidden.”

Source : "Eclogues: Eight Stories".
“Same sex marriage must be decided by the states, and by the people in the states, not by judges and not even by legislators, but by the people themselves.”
“This day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing; and God Be praised. At His command, Seeking His secret deeds With tears and toiling breath, I find thy cunning seeds, O million-murdering Death. I know this little thing A myriad men will save. O Death, where is thy sting? Thy victory, O Grave? Poem he wrote following the discovery that the malaria parasite was carried by the amopheline mosquito.”

Source : Philosophies (1910) "In Exile" pt. 7 (describing his part in discovering the life-cycle of the malaria parasite in 1897; cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 77:1)
“But if one's dreams having to come true was the only referendum on whether they were beautiful, or worth dreaming, well then, no one would wish for anything. And that would be so much sadder.”
“Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating in this creative act of Godâ€™s â€¦ Resurrection is not a consoling opium, soothing us with the promise of a better world in the hereafter. It is the energy for a rebirth of this life. The hope doesnâ€™t point to another world. It is focused on the redemption of this one.”
“Okay. If you want to do this thing with Marcus then fine. Iâ€™ll take it and deal with it. But when he hurts you. When he lets you down, Iâ€™ll be here. My arms are always open for you to run into. I want you happy and if you think this ***** will make you happy then fine. You need to live a little too. I canâ€™t protect you from everything, but I can be here to hold you when he breaks your heart.”

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