Word: belief
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...improvable. Wars have been motivated by all kinds of forces, but those fought for religious purposes are particularly long-lasting. The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine is not solely about history and two nations’ desire for land; the conflict continues because it involves a clash of belief systems above all else. Understanding how humans are motivated by forces beyond the physical world is a very separate study than merely looking at cultural and historical influences. The difference is in the seen versus the unseen, the rational versus the definitively irrational. The difference is between Reason and Faith...
...very first political memory - a morning assembly at my British elementary school at which we were all asked to pray ("Hands together, eyes closed ... ") for the little boys and girls in Hungary. "I went back to Hungary three weeks later," says Lessing. "The euphoria, that tremendous hope, that belief that people's lives were going to change had gone. A tremendous sadness set in." A Europe in which the memory of the horrors of war was still fresh felt, as it were, a collective shudder. The lessons seemed to be clear: a yearning for freedom would not always be consummated...
Although their strict sugarless remedies may be too severe for the average sweet tooth, those Cassandras are, alas, telling the truth. Contrary to popular belief, there is no Recommended Daily Allowance for sugar, and sweet stuff is not a food group. A person can live a long life--perhaps a longer one--without ever eating another spoonful. And it's certainly not necessary for the average American to gobble down more than 140 lbs. of sweeteners a year--a little more than three-quarters...
Sullivan said that total, literal belief in ancient Scriptures of all kinds is a bad thing and that partial, selective belief is not so bad. Can we go one step further and assume that no belief at all would be best...
...blow at the American public's will to fight the war. As Cole notes, the irony is that the upside of Tet may not be the first thing that comes to mind for Americans when their President compares Iraq to Vietnam - it may be more likely to confirm the belief that Iraq is another quagmire in which...