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Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
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Cognitive Biases
Need for Closure – the need to reach a verdict in important matters; to have an answer and to escape the feeling of doubt and uncertainty. The personal context (time or social pressure) might increase this bias.
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Conflict and Conciliation: Faith and Politics in an Age of Global Dissonance
Despite the peaceful foundations of global monotheistic religions, the broad diversity of interpretations can lead to a sharp paradox regarding the use of force. Inevitably, we must ask ourselves: How can those who ascribe to peaceful beliefs suspend their own moral foundation to beat the drums of war? ... read more
Quotes by Mark Twain
Mark Twain
in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
Mark Twain
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Mark Twain
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination
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