#phil

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

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Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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So that's my philosophy: If you believe in yourself, the chances and the opportunities will come around. ↗

— Mindy Cohn

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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner. ↗

— Ice Cube

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Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party asked me to consider seriously running for president in 2008 and I am doing so. ↗

— Jerome Corsi

#asked #consider #constitution #doing #howard

I will say I love competing, and I was in a great era of playing with young Phil Mickelson and older Greg Norman and Nick Price. I don't know if YA Title could throw the ball these days, but you can play golf for a long, long time. ↗

— Fred Couples

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One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools. My main concern is that an over-emphasis on testing and league tables has led to a lack of time and freedom for a true, imaginative and humane engagement with literature. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#education-system #phillip-pullman #education

for philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life. ↗

— Plato

#age

If you have a big heart, you will live a large life. ↗

— Yvonne Jayne

#literature #philosophy #writing #life