Leon Kass Quotes
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
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The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
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Le théâtre n'a jamais été en Angleterre qu'une mode des hautes classes ou une débauche du bas peuple.
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Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.
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Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic.
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I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a lousy anchor. We would love to renew your contract and have you be our lead reporter here, but we're not going to have you anchor.'
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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
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The more we learn about volcanoes, the more we learn about the earth. Learning about the earth is more important than it has ever been.
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It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.
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The social-media discourse is very different from what it might be on the ground. It's easy to bloviate without having to look anyone in the eye and then having those sentiments swell and amplify and go viral.
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
