"Free will is the thing you have to have if you're going to be responsible in this all-or-nothing way. That's what I mean by free will. That's what I think we haven't got and can't have."

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Galen Strawson

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Way Quotes

“Do something that surprises yourself cause if you don't surprise yourself, you're not going to surprise anybody else.”
“When people come to you with problems or challenges, don't automatically solve them. As a mama bear, you want to take care of your cubs, so you tend to be protective and insulate them against all those things. But if you keep solving problems for your people, they don't learn how to actually solve problems for themselves, and it doesn't scale. Make sure that when people come in with challenges and problems, the first thing you're doing is actually putting it back to them and saying: "What do you think we should do about it? How do you think we should approach this?".”
“Punk-rock records came out and you bought whatever you could find. But Devo didn't happen for another three years. Sex Pistols didn't tour the States until '78. At that time, for me, it was really about CBGB, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, the Ramones, and Television.”
“I don't remember much about my bar mitzvah. The only thing I remember - I killed! That's what I remembered. Nobody could follow me at my bar-mitzvah. It was over when I was done.”
“Beautiful. True. Words to remind yourself, words to live by.”
“My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.”
“a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality.”
“It doesnâ€™t much matter what line of argument you take as a woman. If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. Itâ€™s not what you say that prompts itâ€”itâ€™s the fact that you are saying it.”

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