Brian Morton Quotes
He was like a fireman of intellectual life, rescuing frail forgotten thinkers from the burning building of time.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.
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In my mind I know the name of an ocean the size of everything that was. My mouth can only call it death.
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Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
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The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.
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Love is the essence of all religion, mysticism, and philosophy, and for the one who has learned this, love fulfills the purpose of religion, ethics, and philosophy, and the lover is raised above all diversities of faiths and beliefs.
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I have met many people, and everyone's impression of me is based on my career.
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A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).
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If somebody thinks wearing pretty dresses onstage somehow discredits us that's pretty absurd.
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
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Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.
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Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.
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But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.
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Of course, there are people who deny that such obvious differences are real – Marxists, anarchists, radical feminists, and other denizens of the intellectual slums, who mistake an inability to make the simplest conceptual distinctions for deep insight. To these, it seems, we can add the ranks of secularist “thinkers.” When “New Atheists” and their ilk assure us in all seriousness that believing in God is just like believing in the Easter bunny, or that teaching religion is tantamount to child abuse, they remind me of the freshman philosophy student who once proudly declared to me his “discovery” that taking a girl out on a date was really no different from hiring a call girl, since what it’s “all about” is giving something in exchange for sex. In both cases, the analysis put forward is evidence not of profound philosophical understanding, but merely of being a shallow and sophomoric jackass.
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He was like a fireman of intellectual life, rescuing frail forgotten thinkers from the burning building of time.
