J. L. Austin Quotes
We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.J. L. Austin
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Abraham Lincoln -
You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
Rand Paul -
There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
Laura Carmichael -
Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
Mandy Patinkin -
It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
Pankaj Mishra -
People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
Ian Rush
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
Rachel Corrie -
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Camille Paglia -
They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
H. Rap Brown -
That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
Daniel Boulud -
Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
Gary Weiss
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I love going to cities and getting lost. I love doing that rather than following a guidebook.
Ophelia Lovibond -
Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
M. J. Rose -
I'm very passionate.
Abbie Cornish -
Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.
Laura Dern -
I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
Finn Wittrock
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For me the only training in Swaraj we need is the ability to defend ourselves against the whole world and to live our natural life in perfect freedom, even though it may be full of defects. Good government is no substitute for self-government.
Mahatma Gandhi -
But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.
Frank Black -
Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones -
The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is to have the government subsidize low-wage employment. The earned-income tax credit for low-income workers - which has been the object of proposed cuts by both President Clinton and congressional Republicans - has been a positive step in this direction.
Paul Krugman -
We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.
J. L. Austin