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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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"Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern."
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"My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her."
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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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"Do be careful. I can't replace you as easily as all that."
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"The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future."
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"It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it."
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"Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like."
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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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"Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them."
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"Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now."
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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."
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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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"This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries."
Conservative
"Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, 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."
Life
"Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist."
Literature
"If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again."
Theory
"Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist."
Literature
"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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"The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic."
Philosophy
"Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols."
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