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father paris skulls
Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to. Richard Leakey
father sick suffering
I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering. T. D. Jakes
father reading eyebrows
I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading. Harper Lee
father emotional broken
For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile. Iyanla Vanzant
father opportunity ideas
My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do. Hugh Jackman
father itself noble regards religion
Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble Yiddish Proverb
father years waiting
Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him, 'In your lifetime, have you known peace?' wait for his answer, shake his shoulders and transform him into his father, and ask him the same question, and transform him in his turn to his father, I would never hear the word 'Yes,' if I carried my questioning of the dead back for a thousand years. I would always hear, 'No, there was fear, there were our enemies without, our rulers within, there was prison, there was torture, there was violent death. Rebecca West
father writing exercise
A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film. Russell Baker
father accountants
My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer. Umberto Eco
philosophy race support
I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs. Wendell Willkie
philosophy serenity philosopher
The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things. W. Somerset Maugham
philosophy easy
It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy Zadie Smith
philosophy priorities substance
Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought. Manly Hall
philosophy guiding-principles often-is
The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do so effectively only if he is not concerned with what is now politically possible but consistently defends the "general principles which are always the same." In this sense I doubt whether there can be such a thing as a conservative political philosophy. Conservatism may often be a useful practical maxim, but it does not give us any guiding principles which can influence long-range developments. Friedrich August von Hayek
philosophy want sound
Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophy irritation long
Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered? Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophy doors trying
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophy tasks analysis
The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language. Ludwig Wittgenstein
doubt market protests
If there are more protests in China, the market will fall, without a doubt. Ken Masuda
doubt matter admitting
Everyone doubts themselves. It's just a matter of admitting it or not. Henry Cavill
doubt identity needs
We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death. Leo Buscaglia
doubt serious ifs
There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth. Paul Tillich
doubt ears half
Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work. Llewelyn Powys
doubt style gentleman
Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course. John Gielgud
doubt western when-in-doubt
When in doubt, make a western. John Ford
doubt christ no-doubt
Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us. John Flavel
doubt arms certain
For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed. John F. Kennedy