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The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

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You can’t really change the heart without telling a story.

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To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.

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Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

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To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.

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Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger.

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The humanities prepare students to be good citizens and help them understand a complicated, interlocking world. The humanities teach us critical thinking, how to analyze arguments, and how to imagine life from the point of view of someone unlike yourself.

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