It's a good thing that we're protected by tenure and academic freedom, but we should realize that it … - Martha C. Nussbaum

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Love yourself - Do it now! Don't wait until you get well or lose the weight, or get the new job, or the new relationship.

Martha C. Nussbaum

It's a good thing that we're protected by tenure and academic freedom, but we should realize that it creates a risk of getting cut off. Scholars should write, at least sometimes, for the general public.

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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.

Anger, Emotional, Grief, Hope, Needs, Reasons

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.

Humanity, Thinking, Understand, View, Views

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You never really know if it's going to happen or not do you but the vision was always for [Karen Walker] to be a global niche luxury product.

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There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.

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Louise Hay

Love yourself - Do it now! Don't wait until you get well or lose the weight, or get the new job, or the new relationship.

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If you are a writer and you are in Rome you will have a specific connection to it, then perhaps you will go to Sweden and you will have a different connection and it will be a very different experience.

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