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Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.
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If you can create a social movement that people want to join, they will bend their energies and ideas to you.
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...holding people responsible. People born into the most chaotic situations can still be asked the same questions: Are you living for short-term pleasure or long-term good? Are you living for yourself or for your children? Do you have the freedom of self-control or are you in bondage to your desires?The Cost of Relativism, NYT article 3/10/15
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The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in their own goodness, trapped in a sort of spiritual solitary confinement, looking back at the rest of the world from beyond the barrier of what happened. They find themselves unable to communicate their condition to those who remained at home, resenting civilians for their blind innocence.The Moral Injury, New York Times. Feb 17, 2015
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People generally don’t suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who’ve endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul.The Moral Injury, New York Times. Feb 17, 2015
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There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself.
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(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.
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College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few.
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The imagination simplifies our endless desires and causes us to fantasize that they can be fulfilled.
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