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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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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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
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I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
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Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
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Now, I'm a mixer. I can't help it. It's my nature. I like men. I like the taste of their boots, the smell of their legs, and the sound of their voices. It may be weak of me, but a man has only to speak to me, and a sort of thrill goes down my spine and sets my tail wagging.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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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.
