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I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#celebrity #cleanly #i #i can #intentionally

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

#atrophies #available #becomes #cases #daily

The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

#decisions #forced #his #inaccurate #judge

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#based #belief #command #confident #every

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#assumptions #cannot #contrary #existence #fact

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#book #character #contents #first #function

Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#add #assume #especially #even #governed

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#believe #blood #brothers #closed #existence

Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job. ↗

— Jerry Kramer

#attracting #doing #game #go #hell

I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans. ↗

— Mickey Kaus

#been #criticizing #democrats #energy #fellow