Bernard Williams Quotes

Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.

Bernard Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 21, 1929 - June 10, 2003

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The gay-rights community had a strategy going in; they thought that they needed to have 30 states with some form of recognition - whether that be marriage, whether it be civil unions - but they wanted to have 30 states signed on before they went to the federal courts.

Jo Becker

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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

John Muir

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The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

Alva Myrdal

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Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

Standing Bear

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Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.

Rush Limbaugh

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I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.

Mary J. Blige

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If there are fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies on the table, I won't say no to those. Soy sauce is another one, even though it's awful - it's so high in sodium.

Misty May-Treanor

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I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies.

Mitch Kapor

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My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.

Mitt Romney

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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

Lou Holtz

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There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Joseph Roux

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In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

Jon Porter

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