Elliott Sober Quotes

Instead of thinking of the question of race genealogically, and leaving it open whether vernacular races are genealogical units, the interest in biomedicine has been to determine whether vernacular racial categories are medically useful in diagnosis and treatment. There is on-going debate about this.

Elliott Sober

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• The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.

  

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• Few things are as essential as education.

  

  Walter Annenberg
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• I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

  

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• I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.

  

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• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

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• We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.

  

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• People like to see showdowns.

  

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• Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.

  

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• We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

  

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• For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
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• I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed.

  

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• While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

  

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• My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.

  

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• When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love.

  

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• Instead of thinking of the question of race genealogically, and leaving it open whether vernacular races are genealogical units, the interest in biomedicine has been to determine whether vernacular racial categories are medically useful in diagnosis and treatment. There is on-going debate about this.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Thinking
  • Medicine
  • Debate