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"A bumper sticker from the 1970s read, "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."
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"Focus on your vision and God will help you and give you the power to overcome any fear."

"We pull back our society when we tell people to only pray for miracles."

"Every Christian has the chance to become an outstanding person."

"Win over the fear and adversity and prove yourself wrong."

"Every Christian leader is oblige to teach their members how to discover their territory and cultivate their land."

"The essence of one life is empowering another life, and so your passion has to be linked to the liberation of other people's happiness."

"Ask for a fish, and you only get one; ask for a net, and you can catch dozens."

"There are so many ways to change the world, and every single one starts with you."

"In the body is tremendous strength, in the mind is brilliant potential, in the heart is extraordinary influence, and in the soul is remarkable power."
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"Much can be gained be contrasting a theory with its alternatives, even ones that look too extreme to be true. You can really understand something when you know what it is not."


"The violence of a lower-class man may indeed express rage, but it is aimed not at society but at the asshole who scraped his car and dissed him in front of a crowd."


"Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point."


"In hermetic isolation, all kinds of bizarre and toxic ideas can fester. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and exposing a bad idea to the critical glare of other minds provides at least a chance that it will wither and die."


"Legal investigation. As Clinton noted, "My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful."


"Organisms are selected to deploy violence only in circumstances where the expected benefits outweigh the expected costs."


"Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language."


"Positive legacy of the 1960s was the revolutions in civil rights, women's rights, children's rights, and gay rights, which began to consolidate power in the 1990s as the baby boomers became the establishment. Their targeting of rape, battering, hate crimes, gay-bashing, and child abuse reframed law-and-order from a reactionary cause to a progressive one, and their efforts to make the home, workplace, schools, and streets safer for vulnerable groups (as in the feminist "Take Back the Night protests) made these environments safer for everyone."


"The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as that people of all races and creeds have equal rights, that women should be free from all forms of coercion, that children should never, ever be spanked, that students should be protected from bullying, and that there's nothing wrong with being gay. I don't find it at all implausible that these are gifts, in part, of a refined and widening application of reason."
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