Olleco Quotes & Sayings

Free will is an idealization of human beings that makes the ethics game playable. Euclidean geometry requires idealizations like infinite straight lines and perfect circles, and its deductions are sound and useful even though the world does not really have infinite straight lines or perfect circles. The world is close enough to the idealization that the theorems can usefully be applied. Similarly, ethical theory requires idealizations like free, sentient, rational, equivalent agents whose behavior is uncaused, and its conclusions can be sound and useful even though the world, as seen by science, does not really have uncaused events. As long as there is no outright coercion or gross malfunction of reasoning, the world is close enough to the idealization of free will that moral theory can meaningfully be applied to it. — Steven Pinker

Noble!" "What?" He was annoyed at her interruption. Didn't she understand that he was trying to help her organize her life into something satisfactory? "I am not the one chained naked to my mistress's bed with a broken man part. — Katie MacAlister

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail. — Robert Mitchum

Moon dipped low over the dark outlines of the mountains, and the sable sky blazed with stars. There — Elizabeth Peters

Parents should be the most important examples for their children. — Christy Turlington

The vastness of your imagination depends on the level of your consciousness, the power of your awareness, and the deepness of your perception. — Debasish Mridha

Lacking an analytical approach, many of our comrades do not want to go deeply into complex matters, to analyse and study them over and over again, but like to draw simple conclusions which are either absolutely affirmative or absolutely negative. . . . From now on we should remedy this state of affairs. — Mao Zedong

I'm an accountant. I'm interested in things that don't add up.'

Max. — Jan Ruth

I should have a gun."
"And you think I can provide it?"
"Ask your biker gang buddies."
"They prefer the term 'motorcycle club.'"
"I'm sure they do. — Kelley Armstrong

My New Obsession ... is YOUR DESTRUCTION!! — Mickie James

Nearly all Bolshevist agitators in Germany and elsewhere were Jews. — Adolf Hitler

The boy would learn to ride, to fight, and to hawk, the three chief physical elements of noble life, — Barbara W. Tuchman