TV can be a thread between all of us, and it can be a powerful tool to examine life and love and what we all have in common as humans.
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
PowerPoint makes us stupid.
Still I was concerned that politics would get between us and our POWs.
For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike.
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
It's the results that are surprising, even results where we've totally screwed up, and then learned something in the process, are the ones that stand out. Having our preconceptions overturned is actually thrilling for us.
So when they have Mourinho and Benitez joining the Premiership they should say it's good for us, maybe these guys have something new to give.
Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.
A competitive primary does not divide us, it prepares us and we will win.
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.
The erosion of privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, written to protect us against unreasonable search and seizure, began in earnest under President George W. Bush.
It's presumptuous for us to think we are the only beings in the cosmos.
Checking email every 45 seconds is not only compulsive, it's presumptuous. It suggests a belief that anyone who sends us a message needs us to read it immediately, even if the message is from SkyMall telling us our Bigfoot Garden Yeti statue has shipped.
Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.
