Peter Singer | "The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true."

"The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true."

Peter Singer, Australian Philosopher

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"The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true."

"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."

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"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."

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"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."

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"Imagination is a glorious wonder."

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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."

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"Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it."

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"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."

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"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."

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"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."

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"The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true."

Creativity

"Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with."

Time

"All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals."

Animals

"Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years."

Home

"I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics."

Compromise

"More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency."

Compromise

"Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it's a very different sort of situation."

Being

"I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics."

Ethics

"My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues."

Work

"In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues."

Ethics