P. F. Strawson Quotes
Part of my aim is to exhibit some general and structural features of the conceptual scheme in terms of which we think about particular things.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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For people to even think that I'd be considered or a good candidate for a supporting actress nomination is mind blowing to me.
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I've been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, 'Baby Daddy.'
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The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.
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We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation of everything. That country is become a great, mighty, and splendid nation; not because their government is strong and energetic, but, sir, because liberty is its direct end and foundation.
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The hardest part of writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was probably the sheer amount of iambic pentameter and tiptoeing around certain scenes I knew would be hot-button issues for 'Star Wars' fans.
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Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal.
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The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.
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I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.
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We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.
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The one thing that no Anglo-Saxon can stand is to be ruled by someone who 'talks fancy' by using Latinate words too often.
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I went to 17 different schools when I was a kid. Every time I went to school, no matter what I talked like, it was always from the wrong place.
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Part of my aim is to exhibit some general and structural features of the conceptual scheme in terms of which we think about particular things.
