Thomas Nagel Quotes
A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.
Thomas Nagel
Quotes to Explore
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Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields
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You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.
Adam McKay
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For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.
Pat Buchanan
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I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.
Camille Paglia
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The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject.
Edmund Husserl
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Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.
Abbie Cornish
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Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays,For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise.
Samuel Johnson
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We who know personal religion by experience know that there is nothing on earth to compare with the moral force exerted by it. It has demonstrated its social efficiency in our own lives.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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'All action leads to suffering, someone else's, or one's own.'
Malcolm Bradbury
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For 8 years now I've been addicted to cold turkey. When I tell people I'm quitting cold turkey, they say,'What are you quitting?', I'm fucking quitting cold turkey.
Zach Galifianakis
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L. Frank Baum
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Give encouragement (the incentive to action) - you will have courage and be encouraged.
W. Clement Stone
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I wanted to do well for me and for Maura. It is bigger than me. I have a responsibility. It's incumbent upon me to do Maura the best I can.
Jeffrey Tambor
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We are going to use the truth, and we are going to use it toward the end of winning the war; and we know what would happen to the American people if we lose it.
Elmer Davis
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People have to do what they want to do.
J Mascis
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When I worked with Billie Jean King and Craig Kardon, and we would be working on something, Billie would show up and say, 'What about this?' Neither one of us had seen it.
Martina Navratilova
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When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Charles Evans Hughes
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A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.
Thomas Nagel
