Paul Ricoeur Quotes
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
Paul Ricoeur
Quotes to Explore
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My comedy isn't going to solve problems; I'm not that deep.
Gary Owens
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My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to make a critical economic decision or a decision on a weapons system, he did not turn to me and say, 'Hamilton, what in the hell do I do?'
Hamilton Jordan
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Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.
Gal Gadot
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I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.
Edmund White
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When I started on 'Big Bang,' I was the only girl; I felt like I had four brothers. Then Melissa Rauch and Mayim Bialik came on the show, and we got really close. Because of that, I'm not so quick to judge other women, and now I have all these amazing new girlfriends.
Kaley Cuoco
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Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
Vaclav Havel
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First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued.
Adam Arkin
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Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can't be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him.
Edmund Morgan
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman
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Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Abraham Lincoln once said, 'All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my mother.' I'm not sure I want to say it quite like that, but my mother, Sonya Carson, was the earliest, strongest, and most impacting force in my life. It would be impossible to tell about my accomplishments without starting with my mother's influence.
Ben Carson
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For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.
Andy Murray
