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...What role does belief have in forming hypotheses and persevering through the long phase of research? And at what point do one’s own opinions and passions become a liability? A good thesis writer should be dispassionate and self-critical, but no thesis writer can be apathetic. Faith in one’s self and in the process is vital to the early stages of thesis writing, and affinity for one’s topic could be useful, but by the end, personal convictions become less and less relevant, and belief alone inadequate...
...have felt disillusioned—my Harvard education hasn’t always been genuinely inspiring or empowering. It didn’t inspire me to explore for the future a subject or question I feel wholly passionate about. It didn’t empower me to have faith or feel equipped that I can handle the world or make some significant change in it. Instead, with impending graduation, I feel that roads before me are narrower than ever—people take similar paths, and only a few select paths seem possible, or even socially desirable. I feel like...
...songs like “Hold On,” W.E.B. DuBois, Class of 1890, wrote: “Through all the sorrow of the Sorrow Songs there breathes a hope—a faith in the ultimate justice of things. The minor cadences of despair change often to triumph and calm confidence. Sometimes it is faith in life, sometimes a faith in death, sometimes assurance of boundless justice in some fair world beyond. But whichever it is, the meaning is always clear: that sometime, somewhere, men will judge men by their souls and not by their skin. Is such...
...First, it's dangerous. If journalists don't have faith in the value of our product, why should anyone else? The craft of Franklin, Pulitzer and Graham is too vital to be reduced to a charity case...
Under a blazing North Carolina sun, faith and power renewed their vows, as three former commanders in chief - Jimmy Carter, George Herbert Walker Bush and Bill Clinton - convened in Charlotte, N.C., to pay tribute to a man they all love...