Peace On Earth And Mercy Mild Are

A Spacecraft Is A Metaphor Of National Inspiration: Majestic, Technologically Advanced, Produced At Dear Cost And Entrusted With Precious Cargo, Rising Above The Constraints Of The Earth. The Spacecraft Carries Our Secret Hope That There Is Something Better Out There-a World Where We May Someday Go And Leave The Sorrows Of The Past Behind. The Spacecraft Rises Toward The Heavens Exactly As, In Our Finest Moments As A Nation, Our Hearts Have Risen Toward Justice And Principle.

If Our Goal In Legislating Against Carbon Releases Is Not Simply Punishing The West And Its Power Companies But Truly Trying To Reduce The Accumulation Of Greenhouse Gasses In The Atmosphere, The Main Event Will Be In The Developing World. We Must Use The Smartest Possible Economics, And That Means Investing In China And India.

Heroic People Take Risks To Themselves To Help Others. There's Nothing Heroic About Accepting $5 Million To Go Out And Run Around Chasing A Ball, Although You May Show Fortitude Or Those Other Qualities While You Do It.

Set Aside The Many Competing Explanations Of The Big Bang; Something Made An Entire Cosmos Out Of Nothing. It Is This Realization - That Something Transcendent Started It All - Which Has Hard-science Types... Using Terms Like "miracle."

A Transition From Material Want To Meaning Want Is In Progress On An Historically Unprecedented Scale-involving Hundreds Of Millions Of People-and May Eventually Be Recognized As The Principal Cultural Development Of Our Age.