"The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual political implication of a theory cannot be excluded as, in principle, irrelevant."

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Source : "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

Raymond Geuss

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“You only think of the best comeback when you leave.”

Source : "Jimmy Fallon talks about Fever Pitch". movieweb.com. April 04, 2005.
“Let them no more say, God must do all, we can do nothing, and so encourage themselves to live in a careless neglect of God, and of their own souls, and salvation. Most certainly, altho' we cannot say, That if men improve their natural abilities as they ought to do, that grace will infallibly follow, yet there will not one sinner in all the reprobate world, stand forth at the day of judgment, and say, Lord, thou knowest I did all that possibly I could do, for the obtaining grace, and for all that, thou didst withhold it from me.”
“In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin â€” consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged.”

Source : Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature "Amateurs" (1974)
“How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?”
“I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.”
“How are we going to make our livings in a society becoming increasingly jobless because of hi-tech and outsourcing? Where will we get the imagination to recognize that for most of human history the concept of Jobs didn't even exist? Work, as distinguished from Labor, was done to produce needed goods and services, develop skills and artistry, and nurture cooperation.”
“Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.”

Source : Howard Fast (2011). “The Art of Zen Meditation”, p.8, Open Road Media
“All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity ... that in nature there is nothing absolute, nothing perfectly regular.”

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