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First of all, i think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
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First Of All, I Think It's Odd

Nate Silver
First of all, i think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
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The politics of personal destruction, the politics of division, the politics of fear, it's all there. it helps you to define the politics of moderation - the politics of democratic respect, the politics of hope - more clearly.
Division Helping Moderation
I think when people try to use their art for political views, i think they're art becomes smaller, less interesting. and so for me, as an artist, i'm trying to speak about things in a universal way and not be pedantic or small-minded and try to convince other people of my political views. but having said that, every day i live in sort of complete terror because of what i read in the newspaper and what is going on in the world. i'm constantly, as i think many of us are, overwhelmed by the sort of, mass psychosis that's occurring.
Art Thinking Psychosis
A comprehensive doctrine, either religious or secular, aspires to cover all of life. i mean, if it's a religious doctrine, it talks about our relation to god and the universe; it has an ordering of all the virtues, not only political virtues but moral virtues as well, including the virtues of private life, and the rest. now we may feel philosophically that it doesn't really cover everything, but it aims to cover everything, and a secular doctrine does also.
Religious Mean Political
If i advance new views in philosophy or theology, i cannot expect to have many adherents among minds altogether unprepared for such views; yet it is certain that even those who most fiercely oppose me will recognize the power of my voice if it is not a mere echo; and the very novelty will challenge attention, and at last gain adherents if my views have any real insight.
Real Philosophy Views
I think now it's a very odd time in politics. it should be mostly about good governing. we need a government, not politics. because there's too much politics. of course there should be debate. but there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. it is civilized to agree to disagree and this idea is slowly disintegrating. the great statesmen of the past knew this, and i think it helps drive civilization.
Past Thinking Helping
The basic problem is not political, it is apolitical and human. one of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through political lines and barriers and emphasizing the fact that these are largely fabrications and that there is another dimension, a genuine reality, totally opposed to the fictions of politics: the human dimension which politics pretend to arrogate entirely to themselves. this is the necessary first step along the long way toward the perhaps impossible task of purifying, humanizing and somehow illuminating politics themselves.
Cutting Reality Long
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Out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers' and 'winters.' we say what, each part of the sensible continuum is, and all these abstract whats are concepts. the intelletual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the persceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
Summer Cutting Winter
Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. that event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid. this time it is not an asteroid colliding with the earth and wreaking havoc: it is us.
Inspirational Cutting Loss
I do think that republicans are flirting with their tax cut, which has always been the narcotic of republicans, that they in fact have to at some point, with any remote pretense of candor, abandon any pretense of a balanced budget.i mean, they talk about - because they are going to finance the tax cut by tax cuts. that's how they're going to do it. and i do think that the will is there right now in the congress to act. i think they will be as close to unity as you will see on capitol hill this year.
Mean Cutting Thinking
Britain cannot afford to cut itself off from what is going on in the world, we are too interconnected with what is going on, we have a powerful history and tradition of taking an interest in what is going on in the world, we've also got a very real interest in the future, in remaining connected.
Powerful Real Cutting

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