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“The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of meaning or value or ruled by deity or Providence; whether the will were in fact free or determined; whether there were or were not a future life, or any even fugitive rewards and punishments at all.”

Facts Would Be Values Universe Moral Struggle Issues Rewards Determined Punishment Providence Deities Fugitive Future Life Moral Issues Reward And Punishment

Book:Classics Revisited

Source: Classics Revisited

“Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the depths which push the self to a new plane.”

Self Struggle Issues Awareness Poet Conscious Depth Planes Conscious Awareness

Book:Love and will

Source: Love and will

“When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.”

War Nations Rooms Issues Compromise

Book:Howard Zinn on War

Source: Howard Zinn on War

“We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being brought to an issue. Sophistry has been more effectually excluded from mathematics and natural philosophy than from other sciences. In mathematics it had no place from the beginning; mathematicians having had the wisdom to define accurately the terms they use, and to lay down, as axioms, the first principles on which their reasoning is grounded. Accordingly, we find no parties among mathematicians, and hardly any disputes.”

Firsts Has Beens Philosophy Use Age Term Natural Party Principles Issues Mathematics Lays Reasoning Branches Mathematician Grounded Disputes Sects Axioms Excluded Sophistry Natural Philosophy

Author:Thomas Reid

“Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves. Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.”

Want Use Moving Rooms Audience Issues Series Complexes Debate Opponents Thrust Discussing Subtlety Convoluted

Author:Alan Lightman

“You know, making an animated movie is such a lonesome thing. You mostly don't see your fellow actors or anything. You go into your booth, you record all your dialogue. It's very much an issue of trust. You leave it all up to the director.”

Knows Actors Issues Records Directors Fellows Dialogue Animated Lonesome Animated Movies

Author:Julie Andrews

“I get offered varied parts, often super sexy roles. But I still think it's an issue to find the good scripts. It's a myth that you win an Oscar and you get more opportunities, and this doesn't just go for me.”

Thinking Stills Opportunity Winning Roles Issues Scripts Sexy Myth Oscars Super Sexy

Author:Halle Berry

“If this is the degree of inflation planned for in advance, the real outcome is indeed likely to be such that most of those who will retire at the end of the century will be dependent on the charity of the younger generation. And ultimately not morals but the fact that the young supply the police and the army will decide the issue: concentration camps for the aged unable to maintain themselves are likely to be the fate of an old generation whose income is entirely dependent on coercing the young.”

“I didn't know I was depressed until years later. Actually, I went to the Minirth-Meier Clinic for ADD. I got tested for ADD. So, that's nice. It's nice to know you got ADD. So, that puts you on medication. Did that for years. Then got tested for clinical depression. So, finally when they tell you this, you go, 'ahhh, this is great.' So, now this explains events in your life and how you handle them. But our society frowns on it and they don't want their heroes to have these issues, but unfortunately I do.”

Knows Want Years Issues Nice Events Hero Add Handle Our Society Tested Medication Clinic Clinicals Clinical Depression

Author:Terry Bradshaw

“The mark of a single currency is not only that all other currencies must be extinguished but that the capacity of other institutions to issue currencies must also be extinguished...In the case of the United Kingdom, that would involve Parliament binding its successors in a way that it has hitherto regarded as unconstitutional.”

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Author:Norman Tebbit

“Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent course, whether openly or by secret means, the issue has been pernicious, and the cause of great and wonderful innovations in the principallest and mightiest kingdoms and countries.”

Men Mean Has Beens Country Courses Causes Secret Issues Wonderful Ought Conscience Innovation Violent Kingdoms Pernicious

Author:Roger Williams

“The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'etre is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug.”

People Thinking Facts Government Roles Issues Produce Intellectual Raises Forgotten Corporations Dogma Embarrassing Orthodoxy Raison D'etre Embarrassing Questions

Author:Edward Said

“It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life.”

Knowing Issues Integrity Safe Enlightenment Handle Over It Places To Go Safe Places Anything In Life

Author:John Travolta

“Donald Trump brought up the issue of the birth certificate and it's getting huge buzz around the country. Even Chris Matthews has called for, you know, the birth certificate to be released. Why can't they just release the birth certificate, you know, and just move on?”

Knows Country Moving Issues Huge Trump Birth Release Buzz Matthew Certificates Birth Certificate Just Move On

Author:Sean Hannity

“We didn't raise this issue, the courts raised it. The courts jammed it down our throats, at the risk of insulting any of my gay male fans.”

Issues Risk Fans Gay Raises Court Raised Males Throat Insulting

Author:Ann Coulter

“All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would censor to demonstrate with relative certainty that the speech at issue, if not censored, would lead to irremediable and immediate serious harm.”

Ifs Should Issues Serious Speech Constitution Burden Heavy Harm Certainty Relative Protected Free Speech Freedom Of Speech Censored Heavy Burdens

Book:Finding, Framing, and Hanging Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and Freedom of Speech in an Age of Terrorism

Source: Finding, Framing, and Hanging Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and Freedom of Speech in an Age of Terrorism

“Faith lived in the incognito is one which is located outside the criticism coming from society , from politics , from history , for the very reason that it has itself the vocation to be a source of criticism. It is faith (lived in the incognito) which triggers the issues for the others, which causes everything seemingly established to be placed in doubt , which drives a wedge into the world of false assurances.”

World Reason Causes Issues Doubt Source Criticism Vocation Assurance Triggers Wedges

Book:Hope in Time of Abandonment

Source: Hope in Time of Abandonment

“Handguns are a public health issue.”

Issues Public Health Handguns Health Issues

Author:Joycelyn Elders

“If they think they can get anyone who could have better handled the complex and difficult issues surrounding North Korea, Iran and other controversies, they are not understanding the world right now.”

Ifs Thinking World Difficult Understanding Issues Right Now Complexes Iran Controversy Korea North Korea Understanding The World

Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

“If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.”

Ifs Important Country Issues Information Conversation Flow Important Issues

Author:Al Franken

“The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.”

Should Moral Issues Our Lives Policy Spheres Public Policy

Author:Barney Frank

“It shouldn't be a Republican or Democratic issue whether we take care of the environment. That should be a human issue.”

Should Humans Care Issues Environment Republican Democratic Take Care

Author:Michael Franti

“The opening of the doors to 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians is going to become a huge issue.”

Millions Issues Doors Huge Opening Bulgarians

Author:Nigel Farage

“Personally I don't think there's any real intrinsic difference between comic books, movies, theatre, novels. I know there's sure to be some differences of some sorts. I've worked on novels, films, and video games, and in an adaptation, I guess one of the issues is that I have to be in love with the thing I'm adapting before I do it. So that can cause a problem. You can be too scared of it. You could be too reverential. But at the same time you want to try to capture this thing that you're obsessed by. You're fixated for a reason. What's the reason? You try to get ahold of it.”

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Author:Alex Garland

“The chief obstacle to success lies in the stubborn fact that if the favorable prospects of a concern are clearly apparent they are almost always reflected already in the current price of the stock. Buying such an issue is like betting on a topheavy favorite in a horse race. The chances may be on your side, but the real odds are against you.”

Ifs May Real Facts Lying Sides Chance Race Issues Concern Horse Currents Obstacles Chiefs Buying Odds Stubborn Your Side Prospects Betting

Author:Benjamin Graham

“The purchase of a bargain issue presupposes that the market's current appraisal is wrong, or at least that the buyer's idea of value is more likely to be right than the market's. In this process the investor sets his judgement against that of the market. To some this may seem arrogant or foolhardy.”

May Ideas Seems Values Process Issues Currents Judgement Investors Arrogant Bargains Buyers Appraisal Foolhardy

Author:Benjamin Graham

“Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High school dropout issues. But because of the flow of events which involve the racial component, we've sometimes confused racial issues with other issues which are trans-racial.”

People Sometimes School America Lines White Poor Issues Events High School Flow Crosses Confused Poor People Components Breakdown Trans Dropouts School Dropout High School Dropout

Author:David Brooks

“I know people for whom the search for how to be well has been a positive journey. It's empowering to face your issues and try and take care of yourself. It can be positive too.”

People Knows Trying Wells Has Beens Care Faces Issues Journey Take Care Empowering Being Positive Take Care Of Yourself

Author:Maya Forbes

“For me, fantasy has always been a means of exploring reality: it explores the fact that your internal life, your dreams and the weird images and the things that come to you are things that are actually important tools for dealing with real issues.”

Mean Important Real Facts Dream Reality Fantasy Issues Tools Your Dreams Internals Exploring

Author:Tim Burton

“I write and speak about personal and spiritual growth. One week I write about illness and another week I speak about relationships and another week I write about work and money and another week I speak to people with obesity issues. I write about whatever wounds seem to cry out for more enlightened solutions, and the love that heals them all.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“When it comes to politics, we have an internal glass ceiling. We stand as good a chance as a man to win a political race, but women don't want to run at the same rate as men do. People point to the work-family balance issue, but I think it's much more than that. Many women don't have children, or have children who are no longer at home. There are some deeper psychological and emotional issues in play, like the fact that many of us feel like the embarrassment, humiliation and personal demonization in politics are simply more than our hearts can take. What stops us is fear.”

“A lot of times, if you watch sign language interpreters, there can be some lag time issues. When that happens, I think you lose the hearing audience.”

Ifs Thinking Happens Language Loses Watches Audience Issues Hearing Interpreter Lag Sign Language

Author:Jack Jason

“We respect the individual conscience of every American on the painful issue of abortion, but believe as a matter of law that this decision should be left to a woman, her conscience, her doctor and her God. But abortion should not only be be safe and legal, it should be rare.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“The events in Crimea themselves have nothing to do with what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and other regions. In my opinion, when the world becomes unipolar, or when someone tries to make it so, then this one pole has the illusion that all issues can be settled through power. And only when there is a balance of power does the desire to negotiate appears.”

World Trying Doe Desire Opinion Issues Happened Events Balance Illusion Iraq Regions Afghanistan Libya Balance Of Power Crimea

Author:Vladimir Putin

“The issue I focus on the most is extreme poverty. I think it's kind of out of sight out of mind. I wish there would be more stories about that to connect people to what's happening. To personalize it, to make it real to people, to inspire them to action.”

People Thinking Mind Kind Real Stories Would Be Action Wish Poverty Issues Focus Inspire Happenings Sight Extremes Extreme Poverty Of Sight Out Of Mind

Author:John Legend

“Mayors are very different, because mayors can't be on both sides of every issue. Mayors have to take an explicit stance. Just go with your gut and say what you believe, and you'll be fine. If you're not fine, at least you'll like what you see in the mirror.”

Ifs Believe Different Sides Issues Fine Mirrors Guts Both Sides Mayors Stance Explicit

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Government and business must come together on the interlinked issues of conservation, economic development and renewable energy. There are literally thousands of businesses, many in the tourism industry, that depend on an intact marine environment for their long-term survival.”

“I think even nation states should be and will be obsolete. I think nationalism will be seen in the future as a form of tribalism and I think what we call "Democracy" will be "Netocracy", where people, globally, can work on issues.”

People Thinking Should States Form Nations Democracy Issues Nationalism Obsolete Tribalism

Author:Deepak Chopra

“A party should not contain utterly incongruous elements, radically divided on the real issues, and acting together only on false and dead issues insincerely painted as real and vital. It should not in the several States as well as in the Nation be prostituted to the service of the baser type of political boss. It should be so composed that there should be a reasonable agreement in the actions taken by it both in the Nation and in the several States. Judged by these standards, both of the old parties break down.”

Should Wells Real States Action Together Political Nations Party Acting Break Issues Taken Type Elements Standards Reasonable Agreement Boss Divided Judged Breaking Down Acting Together

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.”

Real Sound Issues Policy Vices Statements Radical Meat Phrases Typical American Politics Fury Cautious Avoidance Announcements Weasels

Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“[I] can't actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease. Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation practices. The question is not when does it end, but when does it begin [..] When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?”

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Author:Eric Holder

“I know that when I look at today’s Mexicans and Central Americans, they seem to me fundamentally the same as my grandparents seeking a better life in America. On the other side, however, open immigration can’t coexist with a strong social safety net; if you’re going to assure health care and a decent income to everyone, you can’t make that offer global. So Democrats have mixed feelings about immigration; in fact, it’s an agonizing issue.”

“The key issue as to whether or not a non-biological entity deserves rights really comes down to whether or not it's conscious.... Does it have feelings?”

Doe Feelings Issues Rights Keys Conscious Deserve Artificial Intelligence Entity

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“I think especially in such an unstable economic environment, what people criticized him [Mitt Romney] for in 2008 his consistency, the fact that he was so strong, and I think people will find that appealing going into the 2012. That’s one of the things that I like about him — because he’s been consistent since he changed his mind.”

“The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not?”

Issues France Reaching Continents

Book:France and England in North America: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. A half-century of conflict. Montcalm and Wolfe

Source: France and England in North America: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. A half-century of conflict. Montcalm and Wolfe

“Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to this issue I would say: Any way possible permission should be refused and if they go ahead and build it, the government should bomb it out of existence, evacuating it first, with no compensation to any of the property owners involved in this monstrosity.”

Ifs Way Should Firsts Wells Mean War Done Government Asks Existence Issues Involved Regard Property Conclusion Ask Me Bombs Owners Permission Compensation Monstrosity

Author:Leonard Peikoff

“I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue; in fact, when people talk about me being the first female governor, I'm a little absent from that discussion, because I've never thought of gender as an issue. In sports, you learn self-discipline, healthy competition, to be gracious in victory and defeat, and the importance of being part of a team and understanding what part you play on that team. You all work together to reach a goal, and I think all of those factors come into play in my role as governor.”

“I would just say it's not good for the country to have 11 million people here who we don't know who they are, where they're living. They're not paying taxes, but they're showing up in emergency rooms. They're driving up the cost of auto insurance 'cause they don't have driver's licenses and are getting into accidents. They're having children, which are US citizens. So, I mean, it's an issue that needs to be dealt with.”

“In the national debate about a serious issue, it is the expression of the minority's viewpoint that most demands the protection of the First Amendment. Whatever the better policy may be, a full and frank discussion of the costs and benefits of the attempt to prohibit the use of marijuana is far wiser than suppression of speech because it is unpopular.”

“I have a recurring daymare that when the Glorious People's SWAT Teams smash their way in, most of us - by which I mean members of the general freedom movement - will be caught flatfooted, sitting in our underwear behind our computer monitors, guzzling Jolt and gorging on Cheetos, while arguing with our friends and enemies online about immigration or abortion, two of the issues that the Lefties know they can always rely on to keep that general freedom movement divided and powerless.”

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