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Bhakti Tirtha Swami (1950–2005) American Hindu writer
Source: Books, Spiritual Warrior, Volume I: Uncovering Spiritual Truths in Psychic Phenomena (Hari-Nama Press, 1996), Chapter 1: Dreams: A State of Reality, p. 18-19
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
Essays in Honour of E. H. Carr (1974) edited by Chimen Abramsky, p. 9
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
Five Essays on Liberty (2002), Introduction (1969)
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
Five Essays on Liberty (2002), Introduction (1969)
“We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.”
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
Five Essays on Liberty (2002), Two Concepts of Liberty (1958)
Context: I am normally said to be free to the degree to which no man or body of men interferes with my activity. Political liberty in this sense is simply the area within which a man can act unobstructed by others. If I am prevented by others from doing what I could otherwise do, I am to that degree unfree; and if this area is contracted by other men beyond a certain minimum, I can be described as being coerced, or, it may be, enslaved. Coercion is not, however, a term that covers every form of inability. If I say that I am unable to jump more than ten feet in the air, or cannot read because I am blind, or cannot understand the darker pages of Hegel, it would be eccentric to say that I am to that degree enslaved or coerced. Coercion implies the deliberate interference of other human beings within the area in which I could otherwise act.
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
Five Essays on Liberty (2002), Two Concepts of Liberty (1958)
“Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
“To understand is to perceive patterns.”
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
“I am Boutros Boutros-Ghali; put down your guns and listen to Bob Marley.”
Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1922–2016) 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations
As quoted in "War" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5P9J1wCgNM (28 February 2003), Da Ali G Show http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508528/?ref_=ttep_ep2 <br class="br">2000s
“Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) English poet
Book II, no. 2.
Emblems (1635)
“The road to resolution lies by doubt:
The next way home's the farthest way about.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) English poet
Book IV, no. 2, Epigram.
Emblems (1635)
“Even such is man, whose glory lends
His life a blaze or two, and ends.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) English poet
Hos ego versiculos (1629).
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
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“I got no time for the jibba-jabba.”
Mr. T (1952) American actor and retired professional wrestler
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“In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.”
Billie Eilish (2001) American singer-songwriter
