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Iris Murdoch

"Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!"

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"Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!"

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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

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"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

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"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."

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"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."

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"What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?"

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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

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"Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man."

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"I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed."

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"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."

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"I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us."

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"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."
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"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."
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"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality."
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"Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph."
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"We can only learn to love by loving."
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"There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship."
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"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."
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"The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries."
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"But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art."
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"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."
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