"The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints."

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Source : Abe Fortas (1968). “Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience”

Abe Fortas

#Freedom Quotes #Acceptance Quotes #Men Quotes

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.”
“The Commerce Clause has already been inflated so much that we basically can't do anything without the government's permission.”
“If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.”

Source : Jim Bouton (1970). “Ball four: my life and hard times throwing the knuckleball in the Big Leagues”, Dell Pub Co
“Of course, there remains the question of why we should find mind-brain identities so persistently counter-intuitive, if they are true. But this is a simple psychological question, and there are a number of plausible explanations. Indeed this is a topic that is quite extensively discussed outside philosophy, by developmental psychologists and theorists of religion among others, under the heading of 'intuitive dualism'. It is rather shocking that so few of the many philosophers working on 'the explanatory gap' are familiar with this empirical literature.”

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.
“The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.”

Source : "Why Not Have Our Own World?". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.
“I've had so many [life lessons], but the more I've walked through tough times, the stronger I've become. I truly believe anything is possible if you fully manifest it. I've been to the top and I believe I've been to the bottom as well. Respecting yourself is key - physically and mentally. It's OK to take care of yourself.”
“The women has her own battlefield with every child she brings into the world she fights a battle for the nation”
“Some time ago a little-known Scottish philosopher wrote a book on what makes nations succeed and what makes them fail. The Wealth of Nations is still being read today. With the same perspicacity and with the same broad historical perspective, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson have retackled this same question for our own times. Two centuries from now our great-great- . . . -great grandchildren will be, similarly, reading Why Nations Fail.”

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