"For whatever reason, I have never separated the technical from the ethical."

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Source : Source: www.salon.com

Cathy O'Neil

#Reason Quotes #Ethical Quotes

“Exercise is the beste intrument in learnyng.”
“Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot touch you. But if you allow your fear to seep into your mind and overtake your thoughts, it will rob you of your life.”
“It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the dimension of moral evaluation; "good/evil" is supposed always to trump any other form of evaluation, but that is an assumption, probably the result of the long history of the Christianisation and then gradual de-Christianisation of Europe, which one need not make. Evaluation need not mean moral evaluation, but might include assessments of efficiency, ... simplicity, perspicuousness, aesthetic appeal, and so on.”

Source : "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.
“Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.”

Source : "Don’t Freak Out". www.nationalreview.com. May 14, 2008.
“Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.”
“We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes.Â We are trying to make steady and permanentÂ what is by nature impermanent.”
“The old images seem like a caricature now: the shadowy world of secret rituals, the aging dons behind high-walled estates, the passion for vengeance and power over other men. For years, the Mafia was the stuff of novels and movies and whispers on Mulberry Street.”
“We want to understand what works here rather than what worked at any other organization.”

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