Raymond Smullyan Quotes
There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.
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I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.
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I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.
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Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.
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As hitters, I think we take for granted at times how good our hands are and just how much the value of truly getting the barrel to the ball is. We don't have to do as much as we think we have to.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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I was traveling a lot as a young actor, and while in a new city, I'd want to see the place, so I would just put on my trainers and go for a jog. And the more I did that, the more I found I was traveling longer and longer distances. I just fell into it.
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It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.
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I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.
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James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong – he's good.
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Regional gaming across the United States has had serious challenges, not just in Cleveland or Cincinnati, but also across the United States.
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I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
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Every day, people serve their neighbors and our nation in many different ways, from helping a child learn and easing the loneliness of those without a family to defending our freedom overseas. It is in this spirit of dedication to others and to our country that I believe service should be broadly and deeply encouraged.
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In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.
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That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.
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A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.
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There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.
