Francis Hutcheson Quotes
Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them . . .
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.
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The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
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I never want any problems with anybody in this world.
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Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
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I'm all for putting money back into the black community, who white people have been stealing from for years.
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They have a problem with unmarried women who think, 'No, we don't need national defense, we need our birth control paid for.' And why? Because single women look at the government as their husbands. 'Please provide for me, please take care of me.'
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When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.
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But just as I was ready to call it quits, I got the necessary money from a third party, who had been instructed by Bing to help me out, without letting me know where the help came from.
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I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.
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We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.
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No one truly understood what it is to exist as someone who has to do the things that Jack Bauer does.
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I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.
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To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
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Centenarians tend to be assertive, suspicious, and practical.
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People believe what they want to believe. You have to run your race and be proud of the person you see in the mirror.
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...reality is a system, completely ordered and fully intelligible, with which thought in its advance is more and more identifying itself. We may look at the growth of knowledge … as an attempt by our mind to return to union with things as they are in their ordered wholeness…. and if we take this view, our notion of truth is marked out for us. Truth is the approximation of thought to reality … Its measure is the distance thought has travelled … toward that intelligible system … The degree of truth of a particular proposition is to be judged in the first instance by its coherence with experience as a whole, ultimately by its coherence with that further whole, all comprehensive and fully articulated, in which thought can come to rest.
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The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.
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Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them . . .
