"We can establish empirical criteria for free actions, and investigate human actions on the presupposition we are free."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Allen W. Wood

#Action Quotes #Criteria Quotes #Humans Quotes

“People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.”
“I swear, every person I know gets far more satisfaction from doing good deeds than receiving them. Maybe thatâ€™s the whole point in the end, all of us putting up with good deeds, tolerating them as best we can, counting the minutes until we have the opportunity to reciprocate.”

Source : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Front and Center”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.”
“Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.”
“Wealth is a responsibility and the sharing of it a way of life.”
“The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio; in fact it pays the bills.”
“I heard somebody open and shut the gate to the barn lot, but I didn't look around. If I didn't look around it would not be true that somebody had opened the gate with the creaky hinges, and that is a wonderful principle for a man to get hold of... What you don't know know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I was in college, and after I got hold of that principle I became an Idealist... If you are an Idealist it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.”
“One day he (Einstein) said that the only mechanical force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy is will. That Alberto bloke was not stupid. With will you can achieve things.”

Source : "Manchester United's José Mourinho: no longer the bright young iconoclast" by Jonathan Wilson, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2016.

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