"You do what you do - in the circumstances in which you find yourself - because of the way you are. So if you're going to be ultimately responsible for what you do, you're going to have to be ultimately responsible for the way you are - at least in certain mental respects. But you can't be ultimately responsible for the way you are (for the reasons just given). So you can't be ultimately responsible for what you do."

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Source : Interview with Tamler Sommers, believermag.com. March 2003.

Galen Strawson

#Finding Yourself Quotes #Way Quotes #Reason Quotes

“If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.”
“A united Noxus could control the world - and would deserve to.”
“The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.”
“For boys, Wonder Woman is a frightening image. For girls she is a morbid ideal. Where Batman is anti-feminine, the attractive Wonder Woman and her counterparts are definitely anti-masculine.”

Source : Fredric Wertham (1972). “Seduction of the innocent”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc
“The problem - at least in the United States - is not that people can't find jobs. The problem is that they're no longer finding jobs that provide them with dignity and decent social status.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“There was a massive poster of me down my road, right outside the chip shop. I was about to go in, but then I saw it and changed my mind. Me coming out with a bag of chips, while I'm up there doing crunches on the poster... well, it would not look good.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I prefer fact to fiction.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Its not that I'm in love with myself, I'm just trying to pick up everyone else's slack.”

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