Listen up, guys: this is good [drawing a question mark on the board]... and this is bad [drawing an exclamation point].
Good is doubt, when you meet someone who doubts, relax, it means they're a good person, it means they're democratic, tolerant.
But when you meet these ones [pointing at the exclamation point], those who are certain, with unwaverin
She reflected on how it must be for people in greater positions of power. ‘What if you’re having to make a decision about whether to bomb Libya or not?’ she mused. ‘Would it be helpful to imagine yourself as the mother of a child that might get killed as a result, or would that make it harder to make that decision? If you were too connected to your
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If I must bear the consequences of my choices alone, if there is no one whose counsel I trust, then it becomes especially tempting to seek both perfect knowledge and certainty before acting, and find myself paralyzed in their absence.
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A psychiatrist once told me, with alarming frankness, that “interpretation is hostile.” I think he was saying that not everyone wants their pain revealed and recorded. There’s a fine line between interpretation and hostility, between relating to someone else’s experience and appropriating it, between travel and transgression, inquiry and voyeurism.
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