"I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man."

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Source : Romain Gary (1961). “PROMISE AT DAWN”

Romain Gary

#Men Quotes #Race Quotes #Track Quotes

“In really every area of the mayor's life, whether you're trying to fill in holes in the road, trying to keep your community safe, trying to have the robust neighborhood life, or trying to encourage the arts - really at every turn our job has gotten a lot harder under president Trump.”
“A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.”
“I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy) should be characterized not so much socialistic, as unscrupulously and loyally nationalistic.”
“I love you all too much, it's one of just of my problems.”
“I don't want to be anything else other than what I am. I can say that with passion. No regrets...”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.”
“Philosophy's position with regard to science, which at one time could be designated with the name "theory of knowledge," has been undermined by the movement of philosophical thought itself. Philosophy was dislodged from this position by philosophy.”

Source : "Knowledge and Human Interests". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1971.
“The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.”

Source : Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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