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" A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't. "
Friend
Lot
Critic
" A half-truth is usually less than half of that. "
Than
Less
Half
" An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. "
Necessity
Spirit
Your
" Books had instant replay long before televised sports. "
Replay
Sports
Long
" Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive feature of our relations to others and also be seen as something that is merely to be expected in the light of the best explanations we have of how such disagreement arises. "
Best
Important
Light
" Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm. "
Few Things
Things
Democratic
" If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. "
Night
Romance
Romantic
" 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. "
Others
You
Work
" I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy. "
Word
Seem
Like
" 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. "
Process
War
Man
" I was interested in philosophy before I knew I was. That's to say, when I was at school, I used to argue with my friends about issues that turned out to be philosophical ones of some kind. "
Say
Philosophy
School
" Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons. "
Valleys
Secret
Life
" Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. "
Human Spirit
Inspirational
Man
" People have been predicting the death of philosophy since the 17th century. When I was a student, people were saying, 'We're in the last days of philosophy.' Then we were told in the '60s it would be replaced by sociology, then by literary criticism. "
People
Saying
Criticism
" People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the position. "
More
Strong
Stronger
" People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip. "
Will
Chips
Fall
" Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history. "
Science
History
Now
" Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire. "
Flame
Fire
Brainy
" The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. "
Day
Spring
Same
" 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. "
Name
Think
Science
" There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. "
Pet
Face
Like
" There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. "
Morning
Night
Sunrise
" We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness. "
Take Advantage
Time
Weakness
" We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. "
Roses
Victory
May
" What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor. "
Sense Of Humor
Strange
World
" Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair. "
Women
Favorite
Chair
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