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"I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture."
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"I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics."
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"The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that."
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"All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals."
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"More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency."
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"I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real."
Nationalism
"We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product."
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"Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician."
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"I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and thin what we ought to do about it."
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"In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts."
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"They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences."
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"Impossibility only lasts until you find new unbelievable hard evidences."
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"Be according to your possibility."
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"Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me that if you seek hard enough, pray hard enough, you usually stumble across a scattering of breadcrumbs that marks the trail leading to the goal you once considered beyond your reach."
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"Life is filled with timeless opportunities. You need to seize every opportunity and make it great."
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"There is no limitation in God."
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"To live safely within the realm of possibility is to know nothing other than that which is possible. To live boldly within the realm of God is to experience everything that's impossible."
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"We all know, intuitively, that if something is humanly possible, it is possible for ourselves."
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"Possibilities exist for you, to educate yourself, to the highest degree."
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"There exist possibilities in every problem."
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"From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other."
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