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How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently
How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently

“Just how charitable are you supposed to be when criticizing the views of an opponent?”

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Pioneering Biologist and Writer Rachel Carson on Wonder, Parenting, and Why It Is More Important to Feel Than to Know
Pioneering Biologist and Writer Rachel Carson on Wonder, Parenting, and Why It Is More Important to Feel Than to Know

“If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.”

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Albert Camus on Happiness, Unhappiness, and Our Self-Imposed Prisons
Albert Camus on Happiness, Unhappiness, and Our Self-Imposed Prisons

“Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.”

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George Bernard Shaw on Marriage, the Oppression of Women, and the Hypocrisies of Monogamy
George Bernard Shaw on Marriage, the Oppression of Women, and the Hypocrisies of Monogamy

“Promiscuity is a product of slavery and not of liberty.”

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Why War: Einstein and Freud’s Little-Known Correspondence on Violence, Peace, and Human Nature
Why War: Einstein and Freud’s Little-Known Correspondence on Violence, Peace, and Human Nature

“Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise.”

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William S. Burroughs on Creativity
William S. Burroughs on Creativity

“The price an artist pays for doing what he wants is that he has to do it.”

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Nelson Mandela’s Moving Inaugural Address and Timeless Wisdom from His Autobiography
Nelson Mandela’s Moving Inaugural Address and Timeless Wisdom from His Autobiography

“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”

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Religion vs. Humanism: Isaac Asimov on Science and Spirituality
Religion vs. Humanism: Isaac Asimov on Science and Spirituality

“The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death.”

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Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success: 2013 Smith College Commencement Address
Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success: 2013 Smith College Commencement Address

“Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool — you can balance on them for a while, but eventually you’re going to topple over.”

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14 Ways to Acquire Knowledge: A Timeless Guide from 1936
14 Ways to Acquire Knowledge: A Timeless Guide from 1936

“Writing, to knowledge, is a certified check.”

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