John Searle Quotes
Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.
Quotes to Explore
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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The good romances are as good as anything.
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I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.
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E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.
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OkCupid has users from 18 to 80 on the site. And we get to observe all of their actions. We get to watch how they use the site, how they interact with other people.
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
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Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.
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There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'.
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I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.
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China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.
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I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.
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For me he's just a hoax. It's empty. It's not interesting. It's dead. Citizen Kane, which I have a copy of - is all the critics' darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it's a total bore. Above all, the performances are worthless. The amount of respect that movie's got is absolutely unbelievable.
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Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
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When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
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My performance outfits are very Marie Antoinette, sparkly corsets... and full skirts. And then we do another look that's '50s-inspired. Poufy skirts, big bows. Very fun, girlie and young, but otherwise, when I'm not in costume, I dress really normal.
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What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.
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Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles... Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
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There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are innocent until proven guilty, but survivors are guilty until proven innocent - at least in the eyes of the police.
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Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.
