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Fasting makes sense if it really chips away at our security and, as a consequence, benefits someone else, if it helps us… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the… — Henry Gee Copy Share Image
If you and I go into a store to rob it, and I say "shoot," that's not protected. Like all judicial decisions… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
No one owns you - no matter what the relationship. You are not here on this earth to fulfill the dreams, wants… — Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse Copy Share Image
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That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they… — Isambard Kingdom Brunel Copy Share Image
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I gravitate towards the utopian potentials of digital space (post race, post gender, post human etc.), but understand that people live in… — Saya Woolfalk Copy Share Image
For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come… — Richard Bode Copy Share Image
We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
One of the main reasons I'm vegan is because I'm ethically lazy. My friends who eat meat or who eat eggs have… — Moby Copy Share Image
Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer,… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It's obvious that there are vast variety of consequentialist views, depending on what we think goodness consists in, what our notion of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
No practical biologist interested in sexual reproduction would be led to work out the detailed consequences experienced by organisms having three or… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy,… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
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Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
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As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
The thing that has always interested me in the kinds of shows that I do have more to do with the consequences… — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
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I'm trying to honestly do what I want to do, in the most honest way, and not worry about the consequences, because… — Gary Louris Copy Share Image
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