Jack
views may problem
It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.
running believe forever
The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.
talking people special
Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.
saving care wonder
If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.
teacher numbers nurse
There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders.
blue perspective forever
See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.
mind attention rudy
If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.
watches television said
Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. "We watch television," Dave said.
winning technology race
Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.
omnipotence deities culture
Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?
stars heard knows
We could never know who we truly were until we heard the whispers of the stars.
unity culture looks
The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.
doe type happens
How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?
wine imagination demon
Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.