"Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets, can strike sensible people as ridiculous or offensive. But in my view, his own theory provides us with the resources (the best resources available, I believe) to correct his own personal errors or cultural prejudices."

-- Allen W. Wood

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“I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.”
“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
“No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ.”
“We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.”

Source : Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Sugar Street: The Cairo Trilogy”, p.89, Anchor
“Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom-the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure-cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime-much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture.”
“There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.”
“President Obama signed a bill preventing members of Congress from profiting from insider trading. Didn't you think that was already illegal?”
“Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker”

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