John Searle Quotes
There are clear cases in which 'understanding' literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.
Quotes to Explore
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant?
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Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
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The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'
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I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
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I thank God every night for David Stern.
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The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she cannot help feeling that her children are cruelly handicapped by the fact that he is their father.
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The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.
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I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
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The only way to really cure what's on the inside is understanding that Jesus Christ died for our sins.
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There are clear cases in which 'understanding' literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.
