Richard Jefferson Quotes
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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On election night 2000, I had never met then-Governor Bush, though I'd supported him for years. I believed he would be a strong, optimistic and gracious president with solid conservative principles and a big heart.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.
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I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
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No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.
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It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.
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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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We should be optimistic about the future even though we have a complicated present.
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Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.
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The reason I’m not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.
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Let optimists rule the world.
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There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.
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Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.
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I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.
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Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.
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I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.
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The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.
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I probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.
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Violence is sometimes a duty.
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I was at UCLA when John Wooden was the basketball coach. The next coach was Gene Bartow, who got fired for winning 90 percent plus of his games. He wasn't John Wooden. It's incredibly difficult to replace someone who has been seen as an icon.
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And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.
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I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.
