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“My philosophy on getting knocked out is that it renders you unconscious and numb, so why worry about it.”

Philosophy Worry Unconscious Mma Numb

Book:Got Fight?: The 50 Zen Principles of Hand-to-Face Combat

Source: Got Fight?: The 50 Zen Principles of Hand-to-Face Combat

“I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person's philosophy on education, taxes, poor relief, and other secular things. The nation needed an accepted position on such concerns. Hence the fines for not outwardly conforming to the national church.”

Men Should Persons Philosophy Political Nations Church Poor Worry Position Fine Needed Citizens Taxes Concern Accepted Statements Officials Relief Secular Conform Presbyterians

Book:Elizabeth I

Source: Elizabeth I

“The thing that most distresses me is whenever I see things over sexualized, I worry about young girls. Some of the fall out of the feminist movement is that it made younger and younger girls more sexually available. It's part of the philosophy, be your own person and be free. But, girls are so over sexualized in this culture.”

Persons Made Philosophy Young Fall Culture Girl Worry Movement Feminist Available Distress Sexually Feminist Movement Be Your Own Person

Author:Lily Tomlin

“I am not a very timid type. It's very important to some people, but not to me. I have a simple philosophy: worry about those things you can fix. It you can't fix it, don't worry about it; accept it and do the best you can.”

People Important Philosophy Simple Accepting Worry Type Flight Aviation Do The Best

Author:Jimmy Doolittle

“I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't worry about grades and I read and learned a lot, and I didn't have much of a social life, so it was deeply absorbing.”

Art Philosophy Wanted Political Social Class Worry Economics Grades Political Science Social Life Absorbing Art History Science Class

Author:Sheila Heti

“There are lots of stories about how philosophy begins. Some people claim it begins in wonder; some people claim it begins in worry. I claim it begins in disappointment.”

People Philosophy Stories Wonder Worry Claims Disappointment

Book:Impossible Objects

Source: Impossible Objects

“When I first heard the song Don't worry - be happy I realized it was exactly the kind of mindless philosophy that Americans would respond to. It would make a great national anthem along with Me first.”

Firsts Kind Philosophy Song Worry Heard I Realized Mindless Anthem National Anthem Don't Worry Be Happy

Author:George Carlin

“There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted by science. I'm not much worried about this.”

Way Philosophy Worry Philosophical Worried Philosophical Questions

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“No one worries terribly much about who the questions belong to, or whether a given contribution is really philosophy or, instead, properly nothing but science. Perhaps another way to put this is that, although I think that knowledge is a natural kind, I don't think that philosophy is.”

Thinking Way Kind Philosophy Given Natural Worry Contribution Another Way

Author:Hilary Kornblith