John Rawls Quotes
When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.
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When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them
