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Our Noble, Essential Decency. Robert Anson Heinlein signing autographs at Worldcon 1976. This I Believe: Our Noble, Essential Decency is an essay written and recorded by Robert A. Heinlein in 1952, as part of the Edward R. Murrow 's series "This I Believe" on the CBS Radio Network, generally seen as the most popular of that series. [1]
In 2006, a new book called This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women was published. It was a collection of sixty essays from the NPR series, plus twenty essays from Murrow's original series. The audio version won the 2007 Audie Award for Short Stories/Collection. Another book, This I Believe: On Love was published in ...
Forster argues that one should invest in personal relationships: "one must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life". In order to do so, one must be reliable in one's relationships. Reliability, in turn, is impossible without natural warmth. Forster contrasts personal relationships with causes, which he hates.
The Ukrainian Catholic Church, a sui iuris Eastern Catholic Church professes the Nicene Creed in the following way: I believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen. I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father.
Dutch edition book cover of Why I Am Not a Christian. Why I Am Not a Christian is an essay by the British philosopher Bertrand Russell.Originally a talk given on 6 March 1927 at Battersea Town Hall, under the auspices of the South London Branch of the National Secular Society, it was published that year as a pamphlet and has been republished several times in English and in translation.
The essay "Put a Lid On It" was singled out as a particularly moving and tear-jerking story, and "Rooster at the Hitchin' Post" as "screamingly, blood-vessel-burstingly funny." [ 1 ] Kirkus Reviews highlighted Sedaris's deadpan humor and sense of life's absurdity, [ 12 ] and Tasha Robinson of The A.V. Club lauded the book's humor as "down-to ...
470314057. A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in September 1929. [ 1] The work is based on two lectures Woolf delivered in October 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, women's colleges at the University of Cambridge. [ 2][ 3] In her essay, Woolf uses metaphors to explore social injustices and ...
I, Pencil. "I, Pencil" is written in the first person from the point of view of a pencil. The pencil details the complexity of its own creation, listing its components ( cedar, lacquer, graphite, ferrule, factice, pumice, wax, glue) and the numerous people involved, down to the sweeper in the factory and the lighthouse keeper guiding the ...