Charles Fried Quotes

So too the growth of modern science depended on the premise of the individual’s ability to judge evidence and argument for himself, free from the authority— though not the argument and evidence—of tradition.

Charles Fried

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• Ability
• Tradition

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• There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

  

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• In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

  

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• You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

  

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• The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

  

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• I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
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• I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

  

  Gail Porter
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• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
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• I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.

  

  Bebe Rexha
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• The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.

  

  Laura Esquivel
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• I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.

  

  Omari Hardwick
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• The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

  

  Tania Raymonde
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• I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.

  

  Gary Frank
  • War
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• First thing I said to him was, 'LeBron, you know this is true. We had five good years and one bad night'. Like a marriage that's good, and then one bad thing happens, and you never talk to each other again.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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• We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

  

  Lionel Trilling
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• Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

  

  Edward Albee

• It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

  

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• I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.

  

  Jean O'Leary
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• Maybe one day, I will go to Pakistan and meet these fans who like me and my work. At the end of the day, we are all the same, and meeting my fans there is something that I have on my mind.

  

  Ali Fazal
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• You never know when your last day gig is, and if you spend your life thinking about it, you'll drive yourself nuts. But I try not to foster or exhibit any desperation.

  

  David Eigenberg
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• These days, headlines are trying to get you to click.

  

  Jason Calacanis
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• I just have a vision of something, and it seems to go a long way. One thought goes a long way.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
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• Years and years ago, I was obsessed with these Pamela Love necklaces, and they had a claw, like an eagle claw, which was silver. Then I found one on this random website. I thought it was a fake claw, and when it arrived, it was a real one, cut off from the animal! It came to my house, and it was disgusting; it was a chicken claw or something.

  

  Chiara Ferragni
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• I try to get out of an image's way in order to let it articulate what is hidden.

  

  Richard Phillips
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• So too the growth of modern science depended on the premise of the individual’s ability to judge evidence and argument for himself, free from the authority— though not the argument and evidence—of tradition.

  

  Charles Fried
  • Science
  • Growth
  • Judge