Judy Woodruff Quotes
This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is - are difficult to do away with. And this is a very demanding job.
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I am what I am. I'm not going to get plastic surgery. I had this discussion with my younger son. We were at a dermatologist, and this dermatologist suggested to me that I wanted to avoid wrinkles. Those wrinkles show that I have laughed a lot in my life, why should I want to erase that? Why would I erase the traces of my life which I loved?
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Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.
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A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.
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To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the pace; Encrease of Science, the way; and the Benefit of man-kind, the end.
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In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.
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The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.
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The grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down.
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But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.
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None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.
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Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no sense to ask how the democratic citizen could 'participate' substantively in imperial politics; hence it is not surprising that the subject of empire is taboo in electoral debates. No major politician or party has so much as publicly remarked on the existence of an American empire.
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I feel the human mind is a jigsaw puzzle that I will never be able to solve.
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There are many strange happenings, my boy. Many mysteries beyond the power of the human mind to comprehend.
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Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.
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A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.
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Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in the poetic imagination; knowledge, on the other hand, originates in the reasoning intelligence of man. Science has to pluck the blessed fruits from the tree of knowledge, unconcerned whether these conquests trench upon the poetical imaginings of faith or not.
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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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Stirless, I stand at the window, and in the black bowl of the sky glows like a golden drop of honey the mellow moon
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You already have zero privacy - get over it.
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This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is - are difficult to do away with. And this is a very demanding job.
