Thomas Nagel Quotes
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world.
Thomas Nagel
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
Gates McFadden
You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
Majel Barrett
See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.
Pardis Sabeti
I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
Oliver Tambo
Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen
I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
R. Kelly
There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
It's actually OK to be unique and have your own contributions, to celebrate what it means to be black, how we've survived and thrived through the worst conditions possible.
Alicia Garza
Don't commit suicide, because you might change your mind two weeks later.
Art Buchwald
I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.
Martin Sheen
The passion you forbade my lips to utter Will not be silenced. You must hear it in The sullen thunders when they roll and mutter: And when the tempest nears, with wail and din, I know your calm forgetfulness is broken, And to your heart you whisper, "He has spoken."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world.
Thomas Nagel
