American - Journalist | April 27, 1959 -
The wilderness is healing, a therapy for the soul.
Nicholas Kristof
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Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.
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Random violence is incredibly infectious.
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You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.
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Humans pull together in an odd way when they're in the wilderness. It's astonishing how few people litter and how much they help one another. Indeed, the smartphone app to navigate the Pacific Crest Trail, Halfmile, is a labor of love by hikers who make it available as a free download.
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Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.
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We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur.
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Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such as Spanish. Religion may not be as indispensable, but the humanities should be a part of our repertory. They may not enrich our wallets, but they do enrich our lives. They civilize us. They provide context.
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Above all, we want Millennials to realize that they can have an impact on the world and that, in the course of empowering others, they can also empower themselves.
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What use could the humanities be in a digital age? University students focusing on the humanities may end up, at least in their parents' nightmares, as dog-walkers for those majoring in computer science. But, for me, the humanities are not only relevant but also give us a toolbox to think seriously about ourselves and the world.
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Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
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There are very few things I've done just twice in my life, 40 years apart, and one is to backpack on the Pacific Crest Trail across the California/Oregon border.
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