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- Nov 07, 2020
Think Quotes
Quotes that share what people really think.
Many quotes here open with a direct 'I think,' offering personal beliefs - some lighthearted, like using comedy as a defense, others sobering, including grim predictions about where humanity is headed. A few weigh in on cryptography and the future of communication, a subject also touched on in Life Quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. I don't think I ever had a single discussion with my parents about faith. It was just something gently imposed.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real.
- Nationalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.
- Compromise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020