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William Ernest Hocking
"Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme interest to all wills; and what we have here said is that whatever the nature of that common good ... it must contain the development of individual powers, as a prior condition for all other goods." --
Source : "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking. Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 35, p. 77, 1926.
William Ernest Hocking
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“That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Above all we want people to remember that there are three values we bring to this country. Family, God and hard work.”
“Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
“Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.”
Source : "Teach arts and sciences together". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2002.
“I'm the football coach around here and don't you remember it.”
“Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives.”
“These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for, anyway, in this hard-edged, worried world? Into this cultural uncertainty Gregory Orr's spirited meditation on the surprisingly tensile strength of poetry in the face of profound suffering and grief presents a welcome fresh view of the ancient human instinct to cry out and to praise.”
“Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.”