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• Kant's description of most ethical duties reads more like a description of moral virtues and vices. Once we see this, we see that Kantian ethics is indeed a kind of virtue ethics, and that it does not "divide the heart from the head" (to anticipate one of your later questions) but instead recognizes the deep truth that reason and emotion are not opposites.

  Allen W. Wood

  Heart, Reason And Emotion, Opposites

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Abdul Nacer Benbrika's sentence doesn't expire, I'm told, until 2021, but I think it would be invidious for me as the Attorney-General to talk about individual cases or to anticipate the way in which a court, because it would be a judicial decision, might at some unspecified future time dispose of an application under a law that hasn't even yet been enacted.

  George Brandis

  Thinking, Law, Decision

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I think I tend to feel discomfort more when I anticipate or arrive upon moments in which I need to be careful. As a gay person, there's the fear of violence, and we're not making that up.

  Ira Sachs

  Gay, Thinking, Violence

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If all of the issues that I have worked on were depending on some measure of success, it would be a total failure. I don't anticipate success. We're not asked to be successful, we are only asked to be faithful. I couldn't even tell you what success is.

  Martin Sheen

  Successful, Issues, Faithful

  Source: progressive.org

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• It's hard to anticipate. I can tell you what I'm feeling right now is that I'm busier than I expected these last two weeks. A great deal of emotion around the people that I've worked with and the gratitude I feel for the sacrifices they've made on behalf of the American people, but also on behalf of me personally.

  Barack Obama

  Gratitude, Sacrifice, Two

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There are gonna be elections coming up among our NATO allies that we have to pay attention to. I anticipate that this kind of thing can happen again here. And so in addition to the report assessing what exactly happened, what we have also done is to make sure that the Department of Homeland Security and our intelligence teams are working with the various folks who run our elections.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Team, Attention

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Companies are actually much better than governments and other bureaucracies at organizing in a holistically efficient way the extremely complex path from the examination of molecules all the way to the delivery of medicines to patients. Already in the conception and selection of research projects, companies would anticipate all the challenges down the line that they will need to overcome in order to achieve actual health impact. Bureaucratic organizations, by contrast, are notoriously bad at this sort of optimizing.

  Thomas Pogge

  Government, Order, Organization

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live in a moral circumstance that requires violence.

  George Friedman

  Violence, Moral, Circumstances

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The biblical writers didn't need to say everything; they could assume some things. They didn't anticipate a day when even Jews and Christians would fall under influences of non-biblical religions, philosophies, and worldviews, to the extent that is now the case in our pluralistic culture and society.

  Roger E. Olson

  Christian, Philosophy, Fall

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• When women are subordinate by their culture, in being able to anticipate or think about pleasurable sex, it boosts dopamine, which is about confidence and assertiveness and motivation and drive and focus. So that to me, explained why for 5,000 years female sexuality has been targeted.

  Naomi Wolf

  Sex, Motivation, Thinking

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I think change is happening in ways we can't anticipate yet because the whole generation of viewers who are viewing films - film may not be the appropriate word in years to come. I'm excited about the possibility of new types of storytelling; that to me is less daunting. I'm excited by how we'll evolve with those formats thematically, tonally and in narrative.

  Simon Kinberg

  Thinking, Years, Generations

  Source: deadline.com

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• I think I made a mistake with [Jane] Austen by reading all six in a row. There are similarities to the plots so by the time I got to the last one I could anticipate what was happening too easily. But her characterizations are amazing.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Mistake, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• There's a ceiling when it comes to genetics. I'm a huge believer in the mind. I feel like anticipation is a key to the success of the game and I feel that's where I thrive. Being able to anticipate, prepare and live in the details of the game.

  Will Compton

  Keys, Games, Mind

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• One of the best lessons I've ever gotten in my life is to anticipate nothing because it's always worse in your head than it really is.

  John Krasinski

  Lessons, Life Is

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We enjoy the fruit of the first coming but anticipate the glory of the second.

  Max Lucado

  Fruit, Firsts, Glory

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a major challenge for libraries to adapt their content and services to such a diverse technological environment.

  Tom Peters

  Communication, Challenges, Important

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• We did not anticipate the political fallout from it. We definitely didn't need it and we paid it back the first day we were allowed to.

  Jamie Dimon

  Political, Needs, Firsts

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• I was popular at some times and not so popular at other times. But what mattered was trying to solve problems and deal with circumstances. Some of which I was able to anticipate. Some of which caught us totally by surprise.

  George W. Bush

  Trying, Able, Problem

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• You have to anticipate a call's not going to go your way. It happens to everybody. It happens to both sides every night, so you can't necessarily go there mentally. You've just got to keep moving through the moment.

  Joe Maddon

  Moving, Night, Way

  Source: m.cubs.mlb.com

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• It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.

  Harrison Ford

  Nice, People, Appetite

  "Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher Reprise Iconic Roles in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. December 16, 2015.

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• A good Judoka never anticipates his action in a match, but his mind is as clever as a polished mirror which enables him to foresee precisely anything to happen and he displays freedom of his physique to cope with any change. Such mental state and physical action are called sei or tranquility and do or action, sometimes they are called ju and go or tenderness and sturdiness, in and yo or negative and positive, etc.

  Kyuzo Mifune

  Clever, Mirrors, Mind

  "The Canon of Judo". Book by Kyuzo Mifune, 1956.

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• We may anticipate a state of affairs in which two Great Powers will each be in a position to put an end to the civilization and life of the other, though not without risking its own. We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Two, Civilization, Risk

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• There is no nation on the planet better able to adapt to this change than our nation. We must able to work collaboratively with others. We must anticipate these threats before they happen. This is the new sort of challenge, the new sort of threat that does, in fact, require new thinking, fresh approaches and new leadership.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Challenges, Doe

  Source: time.com

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• If you don't sow your field what harvest other than thorns and weeds can you anticipate?

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Weed, Thorns, Fields

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• I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Past, Design, Society

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.83, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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