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We can treat human responses to cognitions as involving law-like connections grounded on free choices which show themselves in our character.

Allen W. Wood

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Allen W. Wood
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 1
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We can make mistakes about what we ought to do, and these are not the same as making bad decisions about what to do.
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I am a one-trick pony. But I have worked hard at something I would have liked to do even if I weren't paid a penny for it, and made a good living at it. You can't be luckier than that in this life, no matter who you are or what you do.
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Fichte is concerned with freedom as non-domination.
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It is a cause of shame to any member of the human race to be a member of the same species some of whose members could vote for any candidate for president that has been offered by the Republican party. Such people seem to be motivated only by short-sighted greed, ignorance, fear and hatred.
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Marx is thought of as an implacable foe of capitalism. But go back and read the first section of the Communist Manifesto. Notice how it contains a paean of praise for the way capitalism and the bourgeoisie have both enriched the human powers of production and also enabled us to see with clear vision the nature of human society and human history.
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