Edward Feser Quotes
Better for them to deny the mind--and with it rationality, truth, and science itself--than to admit the soul. Once again, the secularist manifests the very dogmatism of which he accuses the religious believer, and in rationalizing it is willing to contemplate absurdities of which no religious believer has ever dreamed.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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It always struck me that Africa was, in a strange way, a futuristic place and had elements and vibes and spirits that were going to inform the future. Africa Express is an attempt to engage that power outside Africa, and for everyone to benefit from it.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
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Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.
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But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. ... Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!
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Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
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Infidi maris insidis virisque dolumqueut vitare velint, neve ullo tempore credantsubdola cum ridet placidi pellacia ponti.
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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
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Off with your hat, as the flag goes by! And let the heart have its say; you're man enough for a tear in your eye that you will not wipe away.
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The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
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I'm always thrilled when I get feedback from young people, particularly from 'The New Normal,' young gay people - when they say they want that when they grow up, that means a lot to me.
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Better for them to deny the mind--and with it rationality, truth, and science itself--than to admit the soul. Once again, the secularist manifests the very dogmatism of which he accuses the religious believer, and in rationalizing it is willing to contemplate absurdities of which no religious believer has ever dreamed.
