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“On climate change and other issues with moral implications, we tend to believe that everyone should care for the same self-evident reasons we do. If they don’t, we all too often assume they lack morals. But most people do have morals and are acting according to them; they’re just different from ours. And if we are aware of these differences, we can speak to them.”
― Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
― Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
“Above all, Reigisaho is an expression of mutual respect in person-to-person encounters, a respect for each other’s personalities, a respect which results from the martial artist’s confrontations with life-or-death situations. The culmination of the martial artist’s experience is the expression of love for all humanity. This expression of love for all of humanity is Reigisaho. The belief that each person is important functions as a filter to purify and sublimate the martial artist’s personality and dignity.”
― A Beginner's Guide to Aikido
― A Beginner's Guide to Aikido
“ironically, the very thing we fear most. Talk about it. Why are people not talking about something that matters to them so much? Even if we agree it’s real and it’s serious, talking about it can be discouraging and depressing. There’s too great a risk the conversation might devolve into a screaming match or end up leaving everyone overwhelmed by the enormity of the problem. We want to talk about it; we just don’t know how.”
― Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
― Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
“No matter where we live, the result is the same: as people identify with increasingly narrow tribes, they begin to view those with different views as alien, not worth respecting or even treating as human. The Beyond Conflict Institute’s 2020 report, America’s Divided Mind, didn’t mince any words: “Increasingly, Americans who identify themselves as either Democrats or Republicans view one another less as fellow citizens and more as enemies who represent a profound threat to their identities.”
― Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
― Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
“would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama. Absurd.”
― The Silmarillion
― The Silmarillion
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