"I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details."

-- Pam Gems

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #World Quotes

“Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the edges of two very distinct cultures, western European and American Indian....”
“Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.”
“I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.”
“The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For... things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.”
“We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates”
“I always fielded the team that I felt had the greatest chances of success.”

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“Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.”
“I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.”

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