J. L. Austin Quotes
The Nicomachean Ethics is only intended as a guide for politicians, and they are only concerned to know what is good, not what goodness means...and in any case one can know what things are good without knowing the analysis of 'good'
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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I am just an actor, but there are these other people who are really selfless. I come from a long line of nurses in my family, and they really do a thankless job.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know.
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Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.
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Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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That's one of the things my family miss most when I'm travelling - my Sunday roasts and my Japanese meals.
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The Nicomachean Ethics is only intended as a guide for politicians, and they are only concerned to know what is good, not what goodness means...and in any case one can know what things are good without knowing the analysis of 'good'
