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Peter Singer Quotes

We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: australian
Birth: July 6, 1946

Topics

Good Live Children People Manifest

On a bigger level, 9/11 was a crystallizing moment for my generation... the bubble popped. We were like, 'Whoa, this is what the real world is like; it's not all fun and games.'

Moment Fun World Generation Bubble

When I first met Clint Eastwood, I bobbed him a curtsy. I still cringe about that to this day.

Day First Him Still Cringe Met

It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.

Robin Marantz Henig

Stereotypes Young Middle-Aged Seems

It turns out you can train a neural network on a big body of text. It can be Wikipedia; it can be all the works of Charles Dickens; it could be all of the Internet. They can use grammar and put words together in interesting and convincing ways - and, I think, unexpected and beautiful ways.

Beautiful Together Words Think Body

When you ask a guy, 'Are you gonna take a fight if your opponent doesn't make weight?' Is it really asking? Does he really have a choice? When you back them into a corner like that, is there really a choice to be made?

Robert Whittaker

Fight You Back Choice Ask Asking

It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!

Roberta Williams

Work Hard Work Hard Always Own Even

If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.

Luis Walter Alvarez

College Me Sister Game Thought Say

The tendency is to think if you are a professional woman, it's because you've turned your back on the traditional side. The tendency is not to recognize that we can excel as professionals without giving up our identity of being mother, wife and homemaker.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

Mother Wife Woman Identity Think

My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have springs on them, and you can just jump around!

Shoes Moon Growing Up Gift Feet You

Yeah, I miss it. You don't just break off a friendship you've had with a sport, and with all those you've met all over the country. We've got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there's nothing in the game of baseball that hasn't happened to me.

Friendship Baseball Me Game Think

I could work with anybody. This is why we need more veterans in Congress.

Work Congress Veterans Why Need

What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.

Joschka Fischer

Education World Security Will Right

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