"In philosophy an individual is becoming himself."

-- Bernard Lonergan

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“Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.”

Source : Family Reunion (1939) pt. 2, sc. 3
“It was a gift, something you can't teach. His hands looked like they were born to have a golf club in them.”
“You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.”

Source : Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books
“The nightmare of censorship has always cast a shadow over my thoughts. Both under the previous state and under the Islamic state, I have said again and again that, when there is an apparatus for censorship that filters all writing, an apparatus comes into being in every writer's mind that says: "Don't write this, they won't allow it to be published." But the true writer must ignore these murmurings. The true writer must write. In the end, it will be published one day, on the condition that the writer writes the truth and does not dissemble.”
“I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.”
“Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an unalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.”

Source : "Liberty" by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, (Introduction), 2002.
“I was driving by, doing a security check... and I smelled leg of lamb." Morelli”
“She smoked because she craved something to do with her hands, that delicate interplay of light and cup and first inhale. Craved the repetition of it. It was so difficult sometimes to be still in a room, alone with oneself. To bare oneself to the lonely.”

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