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No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.


Peter Frederick Strawson


#his #own #philosopher #predecessors #terms

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.


T. S. Eliot


#believe #certain #certain age #early #grows

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.


Fred Barnes


#free #free economy #free-market #guy #how

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.


Sri Chinmoy


#comes #down #mysticism #original #poor

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.


James Dickey


#lightning #outside #poet #rain #someone

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.


Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau


#concerns #enforce #general #level #me

Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.


Hanns Eisler


#knows #music #nothing #only #someone

I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.


John Thune


#blood #cloth #defending #died #flag

The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise.


Robert Fitzgerald


#direct #english #heart #how #i

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.


Michel Foucault


#age #been #between #classical #considerable






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