Felix Adler Quotes
The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.
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It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.
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I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.
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Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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The migratory phenomenon exists, and Europe will have to face it together. The only alternative is a 'beggar-thy-neighbor' solution, in which countries try to load the problem off on their neighbors.
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In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.
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My first priority is trying to protect my family.
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Coal mining is an industry rife with mismanagement, corruption, greed and an almost blatant disregard for the safety, health and quality of life of its work force. Everyone knows this. Everyone has always known it.
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Why do people stay in relationships that are tough from almost the very beginning?
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You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.
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I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.
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The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.
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I wrote my first textbook in 1970. It was called 'The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy,' and over the years, many students told me that they enjoyed reading it because there were so many stories in there; often just a paragraph or a page of something that happened in a group session.
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I quit drinking, smoking, doing anything bad.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
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Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.
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The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
