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I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.
Children are extraordinarily precious members of society; they are exquisitely alert, sensitive, and conscious of their surroundin ...
We had won. Pimps got out of their polished cars and walked the streets of San Francisco only a little uneasy at the unusual exerc ...
I believe that I am letting my kids see that a man can be tender, sensitive, warm, attentive to feelings, and present, just plain ...
It is ... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensiti ...
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention--on a landsca ...
If psychoanalysis emerged just before World War I to deal with the repressions of Puritanism, the hedonistic age has its counterpa ...
The function of the hero in art is to inspire the reader or spectator to continue in the same spirit from where he, the hero, leav ...
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoro ...
Among the most valuable but least appreciated experiences parenthood can provide are the opportunities it offers for exploring, re ...
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