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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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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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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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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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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When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music.
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History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, ... The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.
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It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.
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It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.
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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.
