Charles Fried Quotes
Animal. Our self-reflective perception, our judging and choosing, are what constitute our soul, our consciousness, our conscience (sometimes).
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Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.
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I'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.
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Whom do you feel sorrier for: the cast of 'Boat Trip' or their children? Remember, kids can be very cruel - and this latest 'get Cuba Gooding Jr. career counseling fast' project is a misfire from beginning to end.
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All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
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The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
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It was hard because theyre all so cute, ... They all did a really good job. It was tough to pick.
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I'm the best now Anybody wit some money should invest now
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The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees.
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Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.
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Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.
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Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.
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He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?
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My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
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This was Mahatma Gandhi’s idea, moving from ownership to relationship—seeing that land does not belong to us. We belong to the land. We are not the owners of the land. We are the friends of the land, like friends of the earth. The fundamental shift is in this consciousness that land does not belong to us, we belong to the land.
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Thinking in art and morals and even mathematics is neither the reflection in consciousness of a mechanical order in the brain nor the tracing with the mind’s eye of some empirical order in its object, but an endeavour to realize in thought an ideal order which would satisfy an inner demand. The nearer thought comes to its goal, the more it finds itself under constraint by that goal, and dominated in its creative effort by aesthetic or moral or logical relevance. These relations of relevance are not physical or psychological relations. They are normative relations that can enter into the mental current because that current is . . . teleological. Their operation marks the presence of a different type of law, which supervenes upon physical and psychological laws when purpose takes control.
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I could probably say a lot of things, but I'm not sure they'd be fit for publication.
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Animal. Our self-reflective perception, our judging and choosing, are what constitute our soul, our consciousness, our conscience (sometimes).
