It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
Everyone has motives. Let's acknowledge that and get on with the interesting part.
The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics of magnetism, but from a source extrinsic to physics and chemistry altogether. Indeed, in both cases, the message transcends the properties of the medium. The information in DNA also transcends the properties of its material medium.
The fact remains that the materialistic view is a truncated view of reality.
The heart cannot exalt in what the mind rejects.
It would be just like programmers to shorten 'the year 2000 problem' to 'Y2K'- exactly the kind of thinking that created this situation in the first place.
The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together.
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires
A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.