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• Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Men, Mausoleum, Masculinity

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• I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.

  Tim Ferriss

  Real, People, Fields

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• Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.

  Leslie Jamison

  Writing, Class, Long

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• The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Imagination, Black

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• Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices.

  Isoroku Yamamoto

  War, Sacrifice, White

  "At Dawn We Slept". Book by Donald M Goldstein, Gordon Prange, and Katherine V. Dillon, 1981.

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• The experimentalists think that we can only get at our concepts by way of empirical investigation, while the armchair philosophers think that we can skip the experiments and figure things out from our armchairs. What they have in common, however, is regarding our concepts as the targets of philosophical theorising, and I just don't think that, in the vast majority of cases, the subject matter of philosophy has our concepts as its target.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

  Ian Hacking

  Legends, Philosopher, Accustomed

  Ian Hacking (1983). “Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

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• I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

  Nick Cave

  Dirty, Garden, Knees

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• What I want is an art of equilibrium, of purity and tranquility, free from unsettling or disturbing subjects, so that all those who work with their brains, and this includes business men as well as artists and writers, will look on it as something soothing, a kind of cerebral sedative as relaxing in its way as a comfortable armchair.

  Henri

  Art, Men, Brain

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• Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

  Don Henley

  Warrior, Fairy Tale, Failing

  Song: The End of the Innocence, Album: The End of the Innocence

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• They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses but which can go on forever, if both parties are willing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Party, Winning, Forever

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.22, A&C Black

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• Must you go? I was rather hoping you'd stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must." "I'll stay," Will said a bit crossly, and threw himself down in the armchair Tessa had just vacated. "I can minister angelically." "None too convincingly. And you're not as pretty to look at as Tessa is," Jem said, closing his eyes as he leaned back against the pillow. "How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun." Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Eye, Angel

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• Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing, Constitution the cat is going by with her tummy dragging close to the floor. This cat has absolutely nothing constructive to do in life and still she is heading toward something, probably an armchair.

  Muriel Barbery

  Moving, Writing, Cat

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August 31, 2006.

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• She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak herb tea which is now her substitute for coffee. At one time she thought that she could not live without coffee, but it turned out that it is really the warm large mug she wants in her hands, that is the aid to thought or whatever it is she practices through the procession of hours, or of days.

  Alice Munro

  Coffee, Book, Hands

  Alice Munro (2011). “New Selected Stories”, p.421, Random House

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• So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Two, Old Friends, Wish

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.806, Delphi Classics

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• My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Book, Four, Couches

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.

  Maeve Binchy

  Reading, Thinking, Parent

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

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• I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a rainy night? A hammock in a freshly mown backyard? A verandah overlooking the summer sea? Good choices, every one. But I have no doubt that they are all merely displacements, sentimental attempts to replicate the warmth and snugness of my mother's lap.

  Michael Dirda

  Summer, Mother, Reading

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• O' beautiful for spacious skies
  But now those skies are threatening
  They're beating plowshares into swords
  For this tired old man that we elected king
  Armchair warriors often fail
  And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales
  The lawyers clean up all details
  Since daddy had to lie
  But I know a place where we can go
  And wash away this sin
  We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by
  And the tall grass wave in the wind
  Just lay your head back on the ground
  And let your hair spill all around me
  Offer up your best defence
  But this is the end
  This is the end of the innocence

  Don Henley

  Beautiful, Song, Kings

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• It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or too attention-seeking. In my paintings, I wish to create a spiritual remedy, similar to a comfortable armchair which provides rest from physical expectation for the spiritually working, the businessman as well as the artist.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Spiritual, Art

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• Joe Calzaghe is next. If he gets himself out that armchair, gets himself back in the gym, let's have a fight for the British fans and the rest of the world.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Fighting, Fans

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• It's in the kitchen that confidences are exchanged, that family life takes place; it's among the remains of a meal or when your're elbow-deep in peelings that you ask yourself what life is all about, rather than when you're sunk in an armchair in the sitting room.

  Benoite Groult

  Life, Kitchen, Elbows

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• The kind of approach I take is different from much of experimental philosophy. Although the experimental philosophers and I are certainly in agreement about the relevance of empirical work to philosophy, a good deal of their work is devoted to understanding features of our folk concepts, and in this respect, at least, I see them as making the same mistake as those armchair philosophers who are interested in conceptual analysis.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophy, Mistake, Agreement

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It started becoming clear to me how one might have views about the nature of mind and of knowledge which are empirically informed. This way of thinking about philosophical theorizing makes sense of how philosophy might be a legitimate intellectual activity, in a way that a good deal of the armchair philosophy, I believe, cannot.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.

  Alex Gibney

  People, Easy, Analysts

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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