Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because humans "can understand morality, can reason, can conceive of [their] own existence [and] can fully comprehend pain," Sharfstein's argument implies, the death of another species of animal is less significant than the death of a human. However, it is precisely because of humanity's ability to understand morality, reason, and its own existence that it must bear the burden of responsible conduct toward other creatures in this world. Furthermore, the criteria (mentioned above) which are the basis of Sharfstein's unenlightened argument fail to take into account the circumstances which surround many of the issues to which...
...this era of celebrity scribes, but valid nevertheless. Wilson's formal structure and traditional style indicate an impatience with the sort of contemporary fiction that makes its own creation a central concern. What matters to him is the contradictions of human nature and the religious impulses that seek to understand the desires of the flesh and the spirit...
Tourists and Florentines alike often forget their carefully timed itineraries so that they can follow the progress. Dutch traveler David Casale could not understand why the city was so apologetic. "It's absolutely fascinating. I can see you might get upset if this was for an underground car park, but they are discovering something important here." Mary Rau, an American visitor to Florence who lives in London, curtailed time at the Uffizi Gallery to stare at the hole in the ground. "See the archways they are uncovering? And they're bringing up shards of pottery. They're onto something...
Part of the job of any government, student government or Harvard administration, should be regular and unconditional funding of the arts. I understand that the idea of only providing start-up funding is to make organizations prove their worth, and prevent them from existing just because they can get money. But proving the worth of a literary magazine does not mean being financially independent...
...animals are not and never will be equivalent to humans. They may be cute and furry, but they are not part of a group which can understand morality, can reason, can conceive of its own existence or can fully comprehend pain. Killing animals is not murder...