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If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression ta

If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves. – Jonathan Sacks

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Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes. – Jonathan Sacks

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Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesnt help us know what to say. – Jonathan Sacks

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Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: its more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race. – Jonathan Sacks

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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike

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On the surface we all act like we all love each other and were free and easy, and actually were far more moralistic than any other society Ive ever lived in. – Kathy Acker

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Sports are a microcosm of society. – Billie Jean King

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I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money – they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt. – Yuri Milner

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