Thomas Nagel Quotes
Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.
Thomas Nagel
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My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.
Natasha Leggero
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To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Lao Tzu
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To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
E. Stanley Jones
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What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
Barbara Jordan
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Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?
Abraham Lincoln
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The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.
Carl Sagan
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Marvel's got a crowded universe, and there are already so many characters hogging the spotlight that it's hard to break through that. First off, whatever character you're creating, odds are, there's already someone similar in one way or another.
Kurt Busiek
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
Irwin Shaw
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I want the best and to get the most out of my short boxing career by fighting the best I can.
Vasyl Lomachenko
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I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?
Alan Rickman
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You don't get any mixtapes, you know, 'cause I don't like my voice in there. I want to be that, but that's just not me, you know. And I'm very impatient; if I don't do it right, I'll be like, well, 'Ok that's the best I'm gonna do it.' Because I feel like if you take too much time on something, you lose the motivation for it.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
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Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.
Thomas Nagel
