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Bernard Williams
English
Philosopher
Born:
Sep 21
,
1929
Died:
Jun 10
,
2003
Does
History
Like
People
Science
Than
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We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
Bernard Williams
Victory
Looking
Contentment
Pass
May
Roses
Violets
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Bernard Williams
World
Face
Licking
Puppy
Like
Psychiatrist
Your
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
Bernard Williams
Genius
Brainy
Fire
Flame
Talent
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
Bernard Williams
Hope
Day
Spring
He
Lord
Same
Created
Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.
Bernard Williams
Life
Secret
Valleys
Supposed
Becoming
Grand
Canyon
Series
Keep
Peaks
I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot of opera during the war, but he converted a lot of people, myself included, in the process.
Bernard Williams
War
Myself
Man
People
Rich
He
Put
Attracted
Opera
Himself
Lot
Very
Process
Converted
Rich Man
England
Included
'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.
Bernard Williams
Quality
Humanity
Merely
Name
Also
Species
The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at all.
Bernard Williams
Truth
Truth Is
Rightly
More
Than
Anything
Things
Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.
Bernard Williams
Virtually
Unlike
Philosophy
Component
Classics
Only
Could
Had
Scholarship
Study
Became
Cambridge
Subject
Get
Oxford
Which
Ever
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