Albert J. Nock Quotes

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

Albert J. Nock

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• The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.

  

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• Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.

  

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• My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.

  

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• Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'

  

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• Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

  

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• I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.

  

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• I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.

  

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• Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.

  

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• I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.

  

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• I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.

  

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• I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

  

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• In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.

  

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• Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

  

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• Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.

  

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• Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

  

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• I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.

  

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• There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

  

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• Discrimination was a problem before terrorism. Now, the bad deeds of a few people have made life worse for millions.

  

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• He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it be hard to do, harder than to learn any Language, or Science; yet, when I shall have set down my own reading orderly, and perspicuously, the pains left another, will be only to consider, if he also find not the same in himself. For this kind of Doctrine, admitteth no other Demonstration.

  

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• I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

  

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• The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

  

  Albert J. Nock
  • Science