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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All things are the same,-familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.
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[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.
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Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.
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I've realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don't want to get injured because then I can't take care of my kids.
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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.
