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Ian Hacking Quotes

Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: canadian
Birth: February 18, 1936

Topics

Think Friends Worry Data Information

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

Good Writing Song Easy Difficult

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

You Nothing Bite Rattlesnake Teaches

I usually try on at least 20 pairs of jeans before I find something that looks good on me. And even then, I have a trustworthy friend tell me if my butt looks big!

Good Friend Me Find Looks Butt

I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it.

Love Music Childhood First Been

Our government is printing money, and it's degrading the living standard of every person in America. It's the cause of frustration, anger, and confusion.

Money Anger Government Frustration

Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and profound friendship to Israel, you know? I can't remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned.

Friendship Negative Deep American

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.

Music Husband Rock Big Rock Music

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Douglas Coupland

Loneliness Politics Religion Sex Out

A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.

Behavior Person Awareness Pattern

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

Chuck Palahniuk

Change Death People You Wonder Way

I don't want to try to sell myself or portray something that I'm not.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

Myself Want Try Something Sell

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

Men Hell Office Bench Executive

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