"What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Eye Quotes #Simple Quotes #Hardest Quotes

“When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.”
“To the extent to which the pull that moves me really is irresistible, like an invincibly strong addiction, the normal procedures of evaluation, deliberation, choice, decision, etc. that constitute the substance of our political life are not operating. The same is true of overwhelming aversion. The person being tortured who simply wants it to stop, period, is also not a good model for an agent acting politically.”

Source : Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.30, Princeton University Press
“This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as unthinkingly wedded to dogma as any junior member of the Spanish Inquisition.”
“I'm tired of being responsible for 203 lives, and I'm tired of deciding which mission is too risky and which isn't, and who's going on the landing party and who doesn't... and who lives, and who dies.”
“I don't like paying taxes, but I like sleeping at night.”
“Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word â€œcleanâ€ takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Donâ€™t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.”
“While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.”
“Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.”

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