Sidney Hook Quotes
Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
Quotes to Explore
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
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I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.
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We are at the start of the 21st century and there are many risks in the world and we think that collaboration between Russia and the Vatican corresponds to the common good,
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This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank You.
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We have a second home that also completely rolled into the back of the lot.
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I love the impatience of New York... You ever had somebody not ask you for directions, but demand them? You're just innocently walking down the street, you hear a horn, all of a sudden some guy's like, 'HOLLAND TUNNEL!!!' ...You know, like you were supposed to fax this guy directions. Suddenly, you're wasting HIS time.
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For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them.
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Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.
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This is the political culture of the United States, which one should accept as is. The United States is a great country and it deserves non-interference and no third-party comments.
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
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There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.
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Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.
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I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.
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Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
