"Well, what does "good" mean anyway...? As Wittgenstein suggested, "good," like "game," has a family of meanings. Prominent among them is this one: "meets the criteria or standards of assessment or evaluation."

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Source : "Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language". Book by John Searle, 1969.

John Searle

#Mean Quotes #Assessment Quotes #Games Quotes

“The bombs held in current nuclear arsenals are seventy times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. If we don't begin opposing the drift towards more and more of them, we will live in the shadow of the mushroom cloud for the rest of our lives - and millions may die there.”

Source : "And the solution to the Iran crisis is". JohannHari.com, January 22, 2006.
“Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.”
“someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but which we have long since forgotten, who can reveal to us more about the true secrets of life, and also our own lives, than our parents were ever able to.”

Source : Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.18, Macmillan
“For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You are rich if you have enough to meet your most basic needs. You are rich if you have access to clean water, food, shelter, love, a roof over your head.You have to count your blessings to see that you are richer than you think.”
“The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.”
“I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.”
“The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.”

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