Thomas Nagel Quotes
If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say.

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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
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Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'
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Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.
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When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
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Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.
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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
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Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.
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Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.
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My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.
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I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say.