"Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute."

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Source : "Thomas Pogge and global fairness". "The Philosopher's Zone" with Alan Saunders, www.abc.net.au. March 18, 2012.

Thomas Pogge

“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”

Source : Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.36, Prabhat Prakashan
“By freely choosing to believe God's promises, a person's faith may be more strongly embraced and, therefore, less likely to falter in times of struggle, sadness, or other such difficulties.”

Source : Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.148, WaterBrook
“It's really exciting to know that people want to use the house as a house and want to live there although it hasn't been a used, occupied space in 50 or 60 years.”
“for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.”
“Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.”

Source : Deborah Meier (2002). “The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem”, p.38, Beacon Press
“Nothing shocks me anymore. I've embraced men in thongs, I've embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying 'fierce.'”
“At the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, Sanford Meisner said, 'When you go into the professional world, at a stock theatre somewhere, backstage, you will meet an older actor, someone who has been around awhile. He will tell you tales and anecdotes, about life in the theatre. He will speak to you about your performance and the performances of others, and he will generalize to you, based on his experience and his intuitions, about the laws of the stage. Ignore this man!'”
“You may marry the man of your dreams, ladies, but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.”

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