Thomas Nagel Quotes
Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.
Thomas Nagel
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
Maeve Binchy
I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?
Jack Ma
But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.
Eduard Shevardnadze
I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.
Larry Fitzgerald
We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.
Taylor Sheridan
'Floating Worlds,' published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time.
Pamela Sargent
Come, clear the way, then, clear the way: Blind creeds and kings have had their day. Break the dead branches from the path; Our hope is in the aftermath - Our hope is in heroic men, Star-led to build the world again. To this Event the ages ran: Make way for Brotherhood - make way for Man.
Edwin Markham
The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.
Rumi
We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a common purpose: to eradicate these ills for the benefit of all. And we share a common tool to achieve this: the Millennium Development Goals.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Hear this if you can:
If you want to reach him
You have to go beyond yourself
And when you finally arrive at the land of absence
Be silent
Don’t say a thing
Ecstasy, not words, is the language spoken there
Rumi
Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.
William Golding
Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.
Thomas Nagel
