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What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

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• I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • History
  • Taken
  • Judge

• As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • School
  • Prepared
  • Degree

• Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Today
  • Working
  • Events

• And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Sports
  • Events
  • Realized

• I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Events
  • Three

• I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Women
  • Playing
  • Events

• The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Important
  • History
  • Events

• We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Business
  • Events
  • Improve

• I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Write
  • Something
  • Events

• We'll have clinics and educational events and conferences to get more and more young players developing as hockey players.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Young
  • Events
  • Hockey

• You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Control
  • Events
  • Reduced

• The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Play
  • Hours
  • Events

• Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of the anima. When the reverie is truly profound, the being who comes to dream within us is our anima. For a philosopher who takes his inspiration from phenomenology, a reverie on reverie is very exactly a phenomenology of the anima, and it is by coordinating reveries on reverie that he hopes to constitute a "Poetics of reverie". In other words, the poetics of reverie is a poetics of the anima.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Dream
  • Wish
  • Present

• In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Die
  • Mean
  • Bible

• Do we not see God at work in our circumstances? Dark times are allowed and come to us through the sovreignty of God. Are we prepared to let God do what He wants with us? Are we prepared to be separated from the outward, evident blessings of God? Until Jesus Christ is truly our Lord, we each have goals of our own which we serve. Our faith is real, but it is not yet permanent. And God is never in a hurry. If we are willing to wait, we will see God pointing out that we have been interested only in his blessings, instead of God Himself.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • Real

• The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events.

  

  Alan Alda
  • War
  • President
  • Situation

• The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • Philosophical
  • Philosopher
  • Disputes

• When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in fact, exist.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Events
  • Actions

• Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.

  

  Petrarch
  • Believe
  • Light
  • Events

• In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.

  

  Sandy Berger
  • Prepared
  • Affair
  • International

• Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

  

  Epictetus
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Human Evils

• People who don't have the interest or aptitude for serious college studies at age 18 may find that later in life they do, but those who enroll just because they think that the mere possession of a college degree is the passport to success will just dig themselves a financial hole.

  

  George Leef
  • People
  • Thinking
  • College

• What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

  

  Epictetus
  • Events
  • Philosopher
  • Prepared