William Ernest Hocking Quotes
Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme interest to all wills; and what we have here said is that whatever the nature of that common good ... it must contain the development of individual powers, as a prior condition for all other goods.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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I did a movie called 'Quicksand No Escape' with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was really little. Yeah, it was fun. And actually, Felicity Huffman played my mom.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
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I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music.
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It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.
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A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.
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I never expected that, 20 years later, Chucky would be considered a classic, if I may invoke that term. A golden oldie anyway, something that people still care about 20 years later.
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I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
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Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme interest to all wills; and what we have here said is that whatever the nature of that common good ... it must contain the development of individual powers, as a prior condition for all other goods.
