John Rawls Quotes

The difference principle, for example, requires that the higher expectations of the more advantaged contribute to the prospects of the least advantaged.

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• In sports, teams win and individuals don't.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Sports
  • Win
  • Individuals

• My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.

  

  Oliver North
  • Think
  • Taken
  • Exercise

• I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Men
  • Done
  • Relationship

• I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Experience
  • History
  • Student

• How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging me to delve into my memory to find its match point.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Memory

• Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Up
  • Artist

• Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Deep
  • Summer
  • Laziness

• When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • May
  • Guitar
  • Feedback

• I definitely went through a phase where I wanted to be a fashion designer when I was younger... But I certainly wasn't very good at it.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Good
  • Fashion

• People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• As a five-year-old kid, I used to sit in front of the TV - I never missed 'Dukes of Hazzard,' not once. It was me and my dad's show.

  

  Christian Kane
  • Dad

• People love music, but they also love the lifestyle and glam that comes along with it.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • People
  • Music

• It's nice to be with a male energy as opposed to a female energy. It's very different.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • Different
  • Energy
  • Nice

• The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

  

  James Daly
  • Business
  • Energy

• How do we keep it up? Because that's what we do; we're musicians, and we love to play and make music. And with every album, we get better, and with every tour, we get better.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Up
  • Music

• Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Circumstances
  • Murder
  • Rationalizations

• 'Community' is a comedy show, and one of the characters happens to be a Christian. I do think they have been very careful to make sure everyone is the butt of the joke for various reasons.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Think
  • Community
  • Comedy

• Many poets...write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.

  

  Randall Jarrell

• Most disagreements are the result of faulty assumptions.

  

  Geoff Tate
  • Assumptions
  • Disagreements
  • Faulty

• What is precious is never to forget, The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs, Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth; Never to deny its pleasure in the simple morning light, Nor its grave evening demand for love; Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother, With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • World
  • Earth
  • Simple

• The difference principle, for example, requires that the higher expectations of the more advantaged contribute to the prospects of the least advantaged.

  

  John Rawls