Alasdair MacIntyre Quotes
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
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Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
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The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.
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Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
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Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.
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I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
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He got his mean streak from the gutterGot his kindness from God
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It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
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It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.
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There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them. I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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I try to be measured and thoughtful about what I put out there because I know a lot of young people follow me on Twitter, and I take that seriously - which is why I don't exclusively tweet about cookies and 'Game of Thrones' and YA.
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Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government.
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One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.
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Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.
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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
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Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.
