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decision our-actions regression
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide Alan Watts
decision understanding manipulation
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making Alan Greenspan
decision looking-forward life-is
Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment? Al Pacino
decision further law matter personal privileges prompt serious thank
We want to thank the secretary-general for his personal and very prompt decision to waive privileges and immunities, ... This is now a serious law enforcement matter and we will have no further comment. John Bolton
decision explained therefore understood
We want to take a decision that is part of a solution, not part of a problem, and therefore it has to be well explained and understood by everybody. Javier Solana
decisions early
We want to set the roster as early as we can. This year, the decisions are so few. Mark Shapiro
decisions-we-make splits life-is
Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds. Chris Cleave
decision mind world
Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind. Chris Colfer
decision bad-decision made
Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. Eddie Murphy
understanding mind half
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do. Charles Caleb Colton
understanding vietnam realizing
As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding. Alan Moore
understanding sides stories
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all. Chinua Achebe
understanding important president
The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president. Dean Acheson
understanding consistency intuition
Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does Poincaré, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs. David Hilbert
understanding three fancy
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. David Hume
understanding criticism taste
Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.
understanding duty historian
The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that. Antony Beevor
understanding scientist quantum
But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes. Antonin Artaud
vices moral virtue
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
vices morality virtue
The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.
vices virtue pardon
For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg. William Shakespeare
vices thee poor-richard
Let thy vices die before thee. Benjamin Franklin
vices littles too-much
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little. Augustus Hare
vices prison crime
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few. Benjamin Disraeli
vices virtue deceiving
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue. Juvenal
vices popularity
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
vices photograph vice-versa
One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in. Diane Arbus