Hans Jonas Quotes
Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.
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I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I just want to go to learn about what is interesting to me and learn about the classes that you don't really get to take in high school because you have to take the basics.
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We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.
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WikiLeaks exposed the most dangerous lies of all, which are those that are told to us by elected governments.
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You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.
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Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
