Thomas Nagel Quotes
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Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
Zara Phillips
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
Samora Machel
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
Gary Shteyngart
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
R. J. Cutler
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Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.
Fabrizio Moreira
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People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
Cameron Winklevoss
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I do what I do to inspire people. They can't be inspired by an ego, a big-headed person. It doesn't work. It doesn't match. And I really want to be that role model for people, for children. I want to be real. To my fans, I want them to view me as a real person. Don't put me on a pedestal. I'm human. I make mistakes, I cry, I hurt - just like you.
La'Porsha Renae
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
Natalie Coughlin
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Among politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'
Edward Abbey
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Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway...
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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I think I drift toward sad love songs.
Benmont Tench
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.
Anthony Browne
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Positive psychology is not remotely intended to replace therapy or pharmacology. So when depressed, anxious or in panic or post-traumatic stress disorder, I am all for therapies that will work. Positive psychology is another arrow in the quiver of public policy and psychology through which we can raise wellbeing above zero.
Martin Seligman
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In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept is free from all the delays of its genetic evolution, an evolution which is consequently explained by simple psychology. The virility of knowledge increases with each conquest of the constructive abstraction.
Gaston Bachelard
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Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do.
Van Morrison
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I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.
Thomas Nagel
