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Our age is the age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds of exemption from the examination of this tribunal. But, if they are on they are exempted, they become the subjects of just suspicion, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination ?

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Plato- who may have understood better what forms the mind of man then do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to 'real' people and everyday events knew what intellectual experiences make for true humanity. He suggested that the future citizens of this ideal republic begin their literary education with the telling of myths, rather than with mere facts or do called rational teachings. Even Aristotle, master of pure reason said,"the friend of wisdom is also a fried of myth" ?

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Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. Both words are normally used in so vague a way that any definition is liable to be challenged but one must draw a distinction between them since two different and even opposing ideas are involved. By patriotism I particular way of life which one believes to be the best in the word but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily is of its nature defensive, both military and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. The abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and more prestige, not for himself but for the nation or  other unit in which he has chosen to sink his own individuality ?

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Children cannot really be brought up in jars. Individuality cannot be trained out of us like a bad habit. Either it persists as the mainspring of our energies, if it is crushed, its collapse destroys the rest of our capacities. Human beings in fact are not blank paper at birth and cannot be conditioned to be social insects. The selfless communal consciousness which perhaps pervades a beehive is simply not an option for us ?

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The changes I was so conscious of had actually begun some time before I went away. I had dismissed them as passing tads. I returned, however, to what has become a revolution in public language. The likes of my colleagues no longer thought of this now tongue as an alien one, into which they translated thoughts of this new tongue as an alien one, into which they translated translated thoughts originally composed in a more familiar idiom. They had become native speakers. Today this sectors, and much of the working population is fluent in it, We may joke about the cliched absurdity of mission statements and standardised phone greeting but we find it hard to remember a time when these were not cliches- when we reacted to them with genuine incomprehension and sometime with genuine outrage ?

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The more prevalent view of language, at least since the scientific revolution and still assumed in some manner by most linguists today, consider any language to be a set of arbitrary but conventionally agreed upon word or signs, linked by a purely formal system of syntactic and grammatical rules. Language in this view, is rather like a code; it is a way of representing actual things and events in the perceived world, but it has no internal, no arbitrary connections to that world, and hence is readily separable from it ?

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Many people view drug abuse and addiction as strictly a social problem. Parents, teens, older, adults and other member of the community fend to characterize people who take drugs as morally weak or as having criminal tendencies. They believe that drug abusers and addicts should be able to stop taking drugs if they are willing to change their behavior. These myths are damaging for individuals with drug- related problems, their families, their communities and the health care professionals who work with them. Addiction does begin with drug abuse, but addiction is not just "a lot of drug use," Recent research provides strong evidence that not only do drugs interfere with normal brain functioning by creating powerful feelings of pleasure, but they also have long term effects on brain metabolism and activity. At some point, changes occur in the brain that can turn drug suffer from a compulsive craving and need treatment to end the compulsive behavior ?

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The reductive atomistic picture of explanation, which suggests that the right way to understand complex wholes is always to break them down into their smallest parts leads us to think that truth is revealed at the end of that other seventeeth- century invention, the microscope. When microscopes dominate our imagination we feel that the large wholes we deal with in everyday experience as mere appearances. Only the particles revealed at the bottom of the microscope are real. Thus to an extent, unknown ijn earlier times or dominant technology shapes our symbolism and thereby our metaphysics, our view about what is real. The heathen in his blindness bows down to wood and stone steel and glass, plastic and rubber and silicon of his own devising and sees them as the final truth ?

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"The old stereotype that the head of the household is a male who makes all the financial decision is sorely out of date," says Dan Richards, president of  a marketing solutions Inc. "Any financial institution that ignores women is fundamentally missing the point." His company's survey of 5,000 mutual fund holde4rs was one of the largest of its kind in Canada, and held some surprises for the investment community he says. This is a natural market that has been waiting to be discovered for a long time," admits peter Wallace, president of Midland WAlwyn Inc. Which this summer launched "Women and wealth," a program specifically aimed at female investors ?

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Our words are amalgams of some sound and meaning, and put in some order to express our feelings, thoughts, information, beliefs and so on, for different purposes in life. We also understand others by interpreting their words, which may involve certain background kn9owledge, perspectives, and presupposition. Chomsky is well aware that in actual circumstances, language use is guided and affected by many factors, which he thinks are not amenable to scientific studies. But in his view, some general properties of meaning and sound cab be identified and explained by internal principles and rules ?