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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.


Walter Lippmann

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"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
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ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
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MARTY RUBIN Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
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BILAL SAIF Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI Because I want to be remembered.
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SUZETTE VEARNON People know your tragedies and they treat you like
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Ron: “Throw it away and punch him ...
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EPICTETUS Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
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WALTER BECKER That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the mid...
WALTER BECKER You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'
WALTER BECKER '8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.
WALTER BECKER It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its co...
WALTER BECKER There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does ...
WALTER BECKER 'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day...
WALTER BECKER The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much...
WALTER BECKER There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
WALTER BECKER I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy...
WALTER BECKER I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
WALTER BECKER It's great fun to play with a really good band.
WALTER BECKER People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you e...
WALTER BECKER Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
WALTER BECKER Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could ...
WALTER BECKER When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's...
WALTER BECKER My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of th...
WALTER BECKER I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and end...
WALTER BECKER I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
WALTER BECKER Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
WALTER BAGEHOT You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d...
WALTER BAGEHOT An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time ...
WALTER BAGEHOT No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist...
WALTER BAGEHOT The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opi...
WALTER BAGEHOT No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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