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“When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“When philosophers talk about reason they often have in mind Having been in the business of philosophy more than half my life, I have learned that reason doesn't change many minds. But there's a more ordinary sense of resonableness, which involves not just logic but a sensitivity to other peoples real concerns, a desire to understand, even when you don't agree. Many people are reasonable in this way.I'm willing to think that the world will be made better by the conversations of reasonable people, even if there are unreasonable people and people who don't want to converse as well.”
“When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.”
Source: A Preface to Politics
“When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description.”
“When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“When philosophy paints its gray on gray, then has a form of life grown old, and with gray on gray it cannot be rejuvenated, but only known; the Owl of Minerva first takes flight with twilight closing in.”
“When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.”
Source: On Art, Religion, and the History of Philosophy: Introductory Lectures
“When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where in the world they will find pictures. Nobody does. Each photograph that works is a revelation to its supposed creator.”
Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews
“When photography was invented, it was thought to be an equivalent to truth. It was truth with a capital T.”
“When photography was invented, people had to make room in their minds for the idea that the dead would always be visible.”
Source: The power of photography: how photographs changed our lives
“When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving the human estate, they become moral; they become part of the apparatus of moral inquiry or science? When the consciousness of science is fully impregnated with the consciousness of human value, the greatest dualism which now weighs humanity down, the split between the material, the mechanical and the scientific and the moral and ideal will be destroyed.”
“When physiologists revealed the existence and functions of hormones they not only gave increased opportunities for the activities of biochemists but in particular gave a new charter to biochemical thought, and with the discovery of vitamins that charter was extended.”
“When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.”
“When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But those who imitate him achieve nothing worthwhile.”
“When picking a life partner, I don’t get to pick the best one available. I get to pick the best one available who picks me back. In this way, the online dating search process is much more similar to the job search process than it is to the house hunting process.”
Source: Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating
“When picking a show, I took into consideration who my fans are. Let's be honest, Buffy was a mid-season replacement on The WB, based on a failed movie. If it wasn't for the outpouring of fans and critics supporting us, we would have been canceled after four episodes. Sure, you want to stretch and you want to do different things, but it's also our job to think about who our fans are and what they want to see. Ultimately, that's why we do.”
“When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's why I so love Great Salt Lake. Every day when I look out at that lake, I think, "Ah, paradox" - a body of water than no one can drink. It's the liquid lie of the desert. But I think we have those paradoxes within us and certainly the whole idea of home is windswept with paradox.”
“When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.”
“When Pinterest works well, it helps you find things that are meaningful to you. We want to build a system that helps you do that.”
“When pioneers are pitted in the face of an antagonizing unknown, there is nothing worse than violence met against their fellow man. The unsurmountable danger comes not from the barrage of storms, nefarious creatures, or the torments of slippery sickness, but from what you hold dearest. Betrayal strikes at the heart, just as much as the soul. The loss of one’s humanity is an unjustifiable demise, the beginning of greater evils.”
“When Pisces go to war, there’s never a shortage of broken hearts.”
Source: White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story
“When Pixies broke up in 1993, I gave up the drums for the longest time. I hadn't been doing a lot, but I ended up attending a magic convention that initially got me interested. I took classes, bought videos, and practiced relentlessly. I began performing at parties and soon realized that developing an on-stage routine is often tougher than being a musician. I focused my act on magic that incorporated as much science as it did entertainment, which was really satisfying for me.”
“When placed in command, take charge.”
“When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.”
“When placing an emergency call, it is important to remember that a corrupt or incompetent cop may be on their way to you.”
“When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default.”
Source: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
“When planning life’s journey, always have an alternate route.”
Source: Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“When planning projects and issuing revenue bonds, cities should assess the projects total impact to the urban ecosystem.”
“When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.”
“When played together, love is music in life”
Source: Love in Life's Farm
“When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1,037 times in 20 years.”
“When players go out and train on their own, they usually do it at half speed. This kind of training is valuable, but it doesn't prepare you for competition, where you must perform at full throttle. So the trick is to schedule regular sessions of intense practice, while always leaving time to juggle and generally goof around with the ball”
“When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.”
“When playing against big teams, it's the small details that count.”
“When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room.”
“When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music.”
“When playing games, what looks good now may fuck you up later. Same goes for real life”
“When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.”
“When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.”
Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics
“When Pletcher smiled up at him, he began flexing his fingers. He might even have growled faintly.”
Source: Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller
“When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.”
“When plotting a course to success, consultants need to understand that their unique value proposition doesn’t just come from their training and professional experience.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority.”
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
“When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
“When pockets were first added to women’s clothing in 1913, a Paris reporter wrote, “It’s all over with men’s superiority over women.” Pockets are indeed indispensable, and they come in two types: patch and set-in”
Source: Sew Any Set-In Pocket
“When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!”
“When poems are no good they don't make any sense.”
“When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.”
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs