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Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldnt do very much a

Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldnt do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years. – Peter Singer

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What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it. – Peter Singer

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I dont think nationalism is alone holding the field its in contention with a lot of different things. – Peter Singer

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You might hold an ethical position that its wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons – to reduce casualties, perhaps – and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a good outcome. – Peter Singer

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I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. Its here where my heart is and will forever be. – Michael D. Higgins

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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: Ill do this for now, but Im really a drummer. Thats what Ill put on my passport application. – Jack White

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Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then thats what country music is. Its not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl. – Kenny Chesney

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Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. – Cyril Connolly

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But for me, being an editor Ive been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most. – Peter Davison

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