Let us say, then, that both the realist and the antirealist accept the results of scientific investigations as "true," on a par wi...th more homely truths.... And call this acceptance of scientific truths the "core position." What distinguishes realists from antirealists, then, is what they add onto this core position ... a third alternative emerges--and an attractive one at that. It is the core position itself, and all by itself.... Let me introduce the acronym NOA (pronounced as in "Noah"), for natural ontological attitude, and, henceforth, refer to the core position under that designation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in questio...n--to be defended from the beginning to the end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lord Angelo is precise, Stands at a guard with envy, scarce confesses... That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone. Hence shall we see If power change purpose, what our seemers be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jim Wilson: Cops have no friends. Nobody likes a cop. On either side of the law. Nobody. Captain Brawley: Is that what you wa...nt? People to like you? Then you're in the wrong business and you ought to get out. Jim Wilson: It's the only job I know. Has been for eleven years now. Captain Brawley: Then make up your mind to be a cop. Not a gangster with a badge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist on your neither piping nor fiddli...ng yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light.... Few things would mortify me more than to see you bearing a part in a concert, with a fiddle under your chin, or a pipe in your mouth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not yet born; O fill me With strength against those who would freeze my... humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with one face, a thing,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by med...ia's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »