When cops and prosecutors fail to aggressively pursue sexual-assault cases, Kevin argued, it sends a message to sexual predators that women are fair game and can be raped with impunity. On
We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.
The zealot may be outwardly motivated by the anticipation of a great reward at the other end—wealth, fame, eternal salvation—but the real recompense is probably the obsession itself. This is no less t...
The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype.
The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is...
The pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and needed no external validation.
The courtroom oath--to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth--is applicable only to witnesses. Defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judges don't take this oath--they couldn't! Inde...
Podía intentar explicar que se regía por un código de orden superior; argumentar que, como moderno seguidor de las ideas de Henry David Thoreau, había adoptado como evangelio el ensayo titulado Sobre...
Much of the food he put on the table came from hunting—despite the fact that he was uncomfortable killing animals. My dad cried every time he shot a deer, Billie says, 'but we had to eat, so he did it...
Many decisions are made in our lifetime, Most relatively insignificant while others life altering
Like not a few of those seduced by the wild, McCandless seems to have been driven by a variety of lust that supplanted sexual desire. His yearning, in a sense, was too pow¬erful to be quenched by huma...
I’d like to repeat the advice I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of...
It is morally impossible to remain neutral in this conflict. The bystander is forced to take a side.It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystan...
If you're bumming out, you're not gonna get to the top, so as long as we're up here we might as well make a point of grooving. (Quoting Scott Fischer)
Chris would use the spiritual aspect to try to motivate us. He'd tell us to think about all the evil in the world, all the hatred, and imagine ourselves running against the forces of darkness, the evi...
«la felicidad sólo es real cuando es compartida.» Es
[T]his is a bad thing that’s going on, she told Moore, and we all need to do something to try to fix it. On
You'll never feel the joy of movement if you're struggling. You've got to get good enough and strong enough to reach the point where you can feel this quintessential lightness. - John Gill
When Alex left for Alaska, Franz remembers, I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one; I told him that boy was special. But he let Alex die. So on December 26, when I learne...
Unfortunately, the sort of individual who is programmed to ignore personal distress and keep pushing for the top is frequently programmed to disregard signs of grave and imminent danger as well. This...