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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I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.
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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've never personally been anorexic.
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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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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
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You should stop asking your politicians how they’re gonna do it.
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In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.
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If you wanna see the future, Go stare into a cloud.
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The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.
