Morris Raphael Cohen Quotes
The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.
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It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
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As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
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I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.
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Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.
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I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.
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Forgotten is forgiven.
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I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'm wearing a robe.
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This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.
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And I stare at the phone, he still hasn't called.And then you feel so low you can't feel nothing at all.And you flash back to when he said forever and always.Oh, and it rains in your bedroom,Everything is wrong.It rains when you're here and it rains when you're gone.'Cause I was there when you said forever and always.
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Lo que me digo, ¿quién lo dice?
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
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When you look at me on the telly and say, 'She should be on 'The Undateables,'' you are looking at a 59-year-old woman. That is what 59-year-old women who have not had work done look like. Get it?
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One factor that favors easier adjustment in EMEs is that U.S. monetary policy normalization has been and should continue to be gradual, as long as the U.S. economy evolves roughly as expected.
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Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
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I'm inclined to vote for Roberts unless something else comes up. It's a close call.
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Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity than the sunshine is changed by the variety of objects which it illuminates.
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What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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There is no doubt ISIS poses a clear, direct threat to the United States, and decisive action is badly needed.
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It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.
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Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
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The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.
