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dabbled in it for a while, seen mostly snippets; much of the societal symptoms bitched about by rightwing blogheads were WORSE in the celebrated-50s; the long pedigree of teen-pregancy, drug addiction, youth violence, drop-outs, poverty, etc in Ameri
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“This was the classical understanding of the pursuit of happiness: the freedom to make daily choices about how to balance emotion and reason that lead to truth, order, harmony, and wisdom, aligned with the divine will or the natural harmonies of the universe. The Founders understood the importance of our spiritual nature, and for many of them, the pursuit of happiness was a spiritual quest.”
― The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
― The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
“At its core, the Founders viewed the pursuit of happiness as a lifelong quest for character improvement, where we use our powers of reason to moderate our unproductive emotions so that we can be our best selves and serve others.”
― The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
― The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
“If we had to make a bad drug legal, the worst choice was alcohol".”
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“Everyone then present will remember this famous quote from Father Ed’s St. Louis talk:
'There is a negative approach from agnosticism. This was the approach of Peter the Apostle. ‘Lord, to whom shall we go?’ I doubt if there is anybody in this hall who really ever sought sobriety. I think we were trying to get away from drunkenness. I don’t think we should despise the negative. I have a feeling that if I ever find myself in Heaven, it will be from backing away from Hell.”
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'There is a negative approach from agnosticism. This was the approach of Peter the Apostle. ‘Lord, to whom shall we go?’ I doubt if there is anybody in this hall who really ever sought sobriety. I think we were trying to get away from drunkenness. I don’t think we should despise the negative. I have a feeling that if I ever find myself in Heaven, it will be from backing away from Hell.”
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“every human creature’s formation in the discernment and delight in beauty is different, and because each of us is badly damaged with respect to our capacity to make reliable judgments about the presence and nature of beauty, we should not be very confident about the judgments we make, and should acknowledge that an artifact that seems to some human creatures crudely annoying, even repellent, may seem to others delightful in respect of its beauty. And if we put these two suggestions together we arrive at the (correct) conclusion that there is no hierarchy of beauty in artifacts obvious to all, or even most, human creatures.”
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