Alison Gopnik
Related How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS A Ritual to Read to Each OtherWILLIAM STAFFORD NICHOLAS SPARKS STEPHEN CHBOSKY NICHOLAS SPARKS NICHOLAS SPARKS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm st... MICHAEL VICK YOUNG THUG JANEANE GAROFALO CRAIG GROESCHEL Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN C. JOYBELL C. When you talk about genetic variation being lost, you need to really reduce [the population] to a sm... YVONNE CHAN NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER ALEXIS OHANIAN MARK WAID When you look at national figures you get one picture, and you get another when you look at geograph... ELIZABETH BARNETT CHLOE THURLOW We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS JIMMY FALLON It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a pr... EDD BYRNES People become more ignorant when it comes to religion. DANIEL MELGAçO People should realize that there is variation here. Everybody wants to focus on the average. Nobody ... GARY CLAXTON BRIAN ENO I stopped going to high school when I met Big Pun, which wasn't the smartest thing. So I never g... REMY MA When you're an athlete, you've got the horse blinders on pretty thick. Your exploration of o... WYATT RUSSELL The people who can most successfully lose weight and maintain a healthy life style are foodies. When... EDWARD UGEL There’s a destructive power in unforgiveness and unforgiveness controls you in a negative way. It�... STEPHANIE LAHART There’s a destructive power in unforgiveness and unforgiveness controls you in a negative way. It�... STEPHANIE LAHART When I was 10, we drove to Disney World. When we arrived, what impressed me most was the meticulous ... JASON KILAR When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your... LOUIS DE BERNIERES MALIN AKERMAN I never had a problem with social situations. A lot of times, when people are in school, they can ha... BRITT ROBERTSON CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn'... FAITH FORD HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE JOHN C. MAXWELL RICK SANTORUM MIKE QUIGLEY When I was in high school, I wasn't a troublemaker. I didn't get in fights. I was a good stu... THOMAS MCDONELL ISRAELMORE AYIVOR HUGH JACKMAN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There's been a dearth of innovation around infectious disease. We want more people to pay attention ... BROOK BYERS ECKHART TOLLE The really curious thing is how the species managed to persist for around 3,000 years with almost no... ELIZABETH HADLY Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life.... MARK HOPPUS ISRAELMORE AYIVOR HUBERT HUMPHREY HUBERT H. HUMPHREY CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY People may have said that without symptoms, you can't transmit Ebola. I'm not sure about tha... BRUCE BEUTLER When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a... J. D. VANCE C. JOYBELL C. BARBARA KINGSOLVER ABHIJIT NASKAR People acquire a dog, don't understand it, can't train it, get fed up, and... offer it for a... ELIZABETH MARSHALL THOMAS MITCH ALBOM MARGHERITA MISSONI When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Inst... BRIAN CHESKY JAMES COMEY NAVEEN JAIN Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they ha... GEORGIA JAGGER Everybody's gone through high school; everybody understands that dynamic. Some people have a gre... ROSS BUTLER CRAIG GROESCHEL MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO... OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm... DONNA EDWARDS JAMES PATTERSON ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE ERNEST HEMINGWAY RAINER MARIA RILKE ALBERT CAMUS ALBERT CAMUS ALBERT CAMUS TESSA DARE HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ... EUGINIA HERLIHY TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I gues... MEGHAN TRAINOR DEBASISH MRIDHA WYNTON MARSALIS I've been enjoying it, getting a chance to play against top competition. Even when I was younger, pl... CHRIS LOGAN I never had any trouble being myself. Myself was a problem for a lot of people, but I didn't hav... TITUSS BURGESS JIMMY CARTER BJ THE CHICAGO KID The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE It's hard to get an ambulance in when you have that many people in a stadium. You'll see just about ... JACQUE PHILLIPS Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting ca... PATRICK J. ADAMS
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Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
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After Rilke's Letters
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