Living in harmony with nature is so essential to our well-being that it is the first lesson of scripture. The account of creation in the book of Genesis tells of the idyllic Garden of Eden where man lives amid beauty and new life. Rather than be cont

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It's hard enough to describe the synergy between the idea of a soul and the material world. Talk of eternity is even more difficult. How does a person gain the whole world and lose his soul? And how does a soul die?Is the soul the phantom me, which f

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The trouble about money is that it is often linked to power. Money well used can do great things which benefit many people, anything from funding the arts to bringing food and water to a starving nation. It has great pragmatic possibilities. But ther

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For so long we have fought to be treated the same as men. And of course we have equal value in God's sight, and deserve equal pay, equal rights and opportunities. But we are not the same. That's the point. I will make a colleague and a companion meet

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Some time ago at a buffet lunch in a church hall - not quite a fine dining event - I recall a lively conversation between an unemployed man in early middle age and an older, wealthy industrialist. The younger man commented that unemployment was hard

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Everyone loves a bargain, as those restaurant chains which offer you special all you can eat deals for a fixed price know all too well. In Pakistan a pizza company had been doing a roaring trade during the Muslim month of fasting. Families who were r

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The sight of a grown woman lying on the floor, her wrist pinned down by the foot of someone who was supposed to be caring for her was one of the more shocking images that emerged from Winterbourne View, 一个成年女子躺在地板上,她的手腕被

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J. K. Galbraith once said, Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. He could have been speaking of the decisions we keep putting off about how we pay for future care of the elderly.

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On the train yesterday I sat next to a family with some very excited children who were off on holiday. You couldn't help being caught up in their sense of excitement and anticipation. I know just how they feel. I keep wanting to say: Are we there yet

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Over the last few days we have seen and been reminded of two massacres. Last weekend Norway remembered the first anniversary of the 77 victims of a bomb and gun shooting. During a brief television clip a young Norwegian man said that this tragedy had

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Newspaper obituaries are a useful window onto history and reading accounts of the life of the late politician Alf Morris this week reminded me just how different Britain was 50 years ago before Morris and fellow MP Jack Ashley championed the disabled

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A burglary is often described as being a violation. And it's a good word for it because it's not just about what is physically taken, it's about what is emotionally done to the person being robbed. I had suffered no physical assault, but when I sat d

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One of the features in common between the phone hacking scandal, the various banking scams and the latest row, over the failure of G4S, is that the men at the top claim not to have known what was going on. OK, you can't expect the top person to know

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As a civilization, we will have so many gifts, just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me. 作为文明人,我们会拥有如此之多的天赋,就像是坐在我面前的你们,每一个生命个体都拥有许

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What do you want to do with your life? 你想要什么样的人生? I want to never feel like I've given less than my best. 我从不愿留下没有尽全力的遗憾, I believe that's the key to reaching all my goals in my career because I know

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[00:01.74]Gold and Diamond黄金与钻石 [00:04.38]A long time ago, [00:07.09]in Egypt lived a famous mystical person named Zun-Nun. [00:11.25] A young man came to visit him and asked [00:14.75] Teacher, I do not understand why people like you when you d

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[00:04.63]The Touchstone 试金石 [00:06.87]When the great library of Alexandria burned, [00:10.58]the story goes, one book was saved. [00:13.76] But it was not a valuable book; [00:16.16]and so a poor man, who could read a little, bought it for a few

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[00:01.92]The Fire一场火灾 [00:05.09]A couple, John and Mary, had two lovely children. [00:10.36]John had just been asked to go on a business trip and would be gone for several days. [00:16.25]Mary would go along too. [00:18.47]They hired a reliable

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[00:00.95]Humor Can Save Your Life幽默的意义 [00:05.20]The story goes that a certain court jester went too far one day and insulted his king. [00:13.64]The king became so infuriated he sentenced the jester to be executed. [00:19.02]His court prayed u

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She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways 她栖居在人迹罕至的小道边 William Wordsworth 威廉华兹华斯 She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid there was none to praise And very few to love: V1:她住在人迹罕至

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