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“Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.”
Source : "Philosophical Papers". Book by J. L. Austin, edited by James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, p. 180, 1979.
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“One shouldn’t be only two photographers but thousands.”
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“Everything we know, we learned from someone else!”
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“I am a sundial, and I make a botch Of what is done much better by a watch.”
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“The subconscious is ahead of the conscious, and we never know what really drives us.”
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“I have gotten into a lot of trouble in my life for being brutally honest. Sometimes I put both my feet in my mouth. But like Elton John, I'm still standing.”
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“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.”
Source : "Scientific American", Vol. 267, 1992.
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“There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.”
Source : Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.30, Delphi Classics
