Thomas Nagel Quotes
Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.
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Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.
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How wonderful it was to sit on a set with Norman Mailer and get to know him.
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I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.
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Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search-for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.
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'Did you ever sum up these prizes and think how very little the millionaire has beyond the peasant, and how very often his additions tend not to happiness but to misery!'
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I loved 'The Pitts.' I just loved it.
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Pretty uniformly, people want the benefits of bitcoin and the blockchain - near-instant transfers, globally available on any Internet-connected device, highly secure, and nearly-free value transfers.
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In 2009, the 'New York Times' ran an analysis on the cost of being a LGBT couple trying to live as a married couple but without the same protections. Over a lifetime, they estimated a couple would spend as much as $467,562 more, and as little as $41,196, with costs running lower the higher your income.
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'Moral police' is my new word. I am very against the media doing moral policing, giving opinions on actor's lives. Media should not become moral police; they should just report.
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The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.
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In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.
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If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.
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When I was younger, I was trying to create from attitude more than anything else.
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I'm a big fan of saying the thing that is not necessarily sincere or earnest, but definitely honest.
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Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.
