Nicholas Rescher Quotes
One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.
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American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.
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I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.
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Quarterbacks are always ready.
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The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.
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The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in our culture. Another holdover from slavery. We've got to deal with that core root of racism and demonization of the upbringing of black men. Black women are not exempt by any means.
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Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
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When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.
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It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.
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After my early days of being a passionate young Elvis fan, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. I got interested in Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald. Then I got turned on to the blues. I realized how important it was to our music in England at the time. Everyone was into the blues. Then you start looking at the different kinds of blues, and you follow the journey backwards from Chicago to earlier times back down to the Delta to the Memphis Blues.
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I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.
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For the moment, the big thing is rebuilding and it's going to be hugely expensive and acrimonious.
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Meditation is an essential travel partner on your journey of personal transformation. Meditation connects you with your soul, and this connection gives you access to your intuition, your heartfelt desires, your integrity, and the inspiration to create a life you love.
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Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.
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We believe (the four) have information that is relevant and material to the investigation.
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A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.
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Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.
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You are in front of your brother, but your mind is on many other things, so you don’t really see your brother. Maybe he is having some trouble, but you don’t see it, not even when you share the same room. But mindfulness brings you there, to the present, and then you see. Train yourself all day long to bring your mind to your body and to be present with your food, your friends, your work, everything, because the more you concentrate, the deeper you will see.
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One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.
