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My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

Charles Kuralt

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.

When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

Stephen Cole Kleene

Mathematics

Philosophy

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

John Keats

Philosophy

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