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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.
- Few
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.
- Less
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- Nov 07, 2020
A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the position.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.
- Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That's part of their trouble.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot of opera during the war, but he converted a lot of people, myself included, in the process.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020