John Rawls Quotes
The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.
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I think the one film that I could watch over and over and over again - and I have - is 'Man on Fire.'
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When you're a skateboarder or a snowboarder, it affects the way you talk, the way you move, the way you interact with the world and other people.
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Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities.
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The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read the settlers' publications, you think that the leftists are everywhere: The leftists infiltrate the government, the leftists run the Defense Ministry, the leftists dominate the legal establishment, and the leftists control the media, of course.
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Pete's my best friend, I was the best man at his wedding, I love that man to death. I'd take a bullet for him.
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The state of crisis is the real war; the equilibrium is nothing but its reflex.
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Celebrity is everything in this country. And if these guys don't learn how to play the media the way that Barack Obama played the media last election cycle and the way that Donald Trump is playing the election cycle, we're going to probably get a celebrity candidate.
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The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.
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I've never seen somebody get more flak than Colin Kaepernick for silently and nonviolently protesting and standing up for something he believes, and something that obviously is an actual problem.
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A lot of adults don't think it's their place to interfere with kids. I interfere all the time.
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I think everyone should read Governor William Bradford's diary.
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I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because somebody else did. Now I'm not so sure of either.
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Mothers are the only ones that think nothing is beyond their control when it comes to their children.
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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
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Respecting the cosmogony of the Egyptian priests, we gather much information from writers of the Grecian sects, who borrowed almost all their tenets from Egypt, and amongst others that of the former successive destruction and renovation of the world.
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The cost of money rises dramatically if you can't afford to keep it in a bank.
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I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn't have Latin, and so couldn't go on to university. So I went to a few drama schools, not studying seriously; I was mostly in love at the time and tied up with that.
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The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.
