Harry Frankfurt Quotes
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.
Quotes to Explore
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Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.
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Real Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.
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'This fellow,' he indicated the woodsman with a sweep of his stick, 'will reliably not become more alive, but he may have friends or family who will be unsettled to find him so extremely dead.'
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The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow, and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined.An icy sweetness fills my mind, A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living, coiled, the spring.
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The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
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He is Mr Piano Man, I am Miss Piano Man.
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Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that. It is seemingly little realized, at present, that this simple and innocent-looking statement involves a full structural revision of our language...
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What does it mean to have a mayor who has an organizing background? It means I have allies and partners on whom I can call for advice - and that are also holding my feet to the fire already.
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The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
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Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.
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Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.
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I'm not a bro.
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You must use force against terrorism.
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I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
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It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.
