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"The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions."
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"We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop."
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"Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire."
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"We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path."
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"Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate."
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"How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern."
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"Everyone I have spoken with so far recognises the need for the IRA to respond positively and every has said sooner is better than later and I think there is some concern if it does continue to delay much longer that the situation isn't going to remain the same."
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"The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all."
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"It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire."
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"The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings."
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"It's nice to feel the fans are behind you. You shouldn't concern yourself with things like that - but it does matter."
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"To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority."
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"Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols."
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"It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views."
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"In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor."
Science


"Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist."
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"Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability."
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"If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again."
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"If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good."
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"Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives."
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"Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions."
Decision-Making
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