S. Jay Olshansky Quotes

The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.

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• In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

  

  Yogi Berra
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• We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

  

  Federica Montseny
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• In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

  

  Walter Lang
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• Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.

  

  Dan Scanlon
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• If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
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• Screaming is hard after a while.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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• Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.

  

  Flora Lewis
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• There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.

  

  Sadie Frost
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• You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
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• I've never seen hard work fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
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• The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.

  

  Hank Azaria
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• I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that.

  

  Larry Page
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• On a film set, for me, there's so much more time to process what's going on than there is on a television set. There's more wiggle room to try things and fail and try again and get to the heart of what's going on in the scene, which is really fun for me. It's what I like to do.

  

  Taylor Schilling
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• Kepler had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful logical theory means nothing in natural science without comparison with the exactest experience. Without this philosophic attitude, his work would not have been possible.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.

  

  Charles Haughey
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• You are just your intelligence.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
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• We have a culture of political corruption in Jefferson City. We have corrupt politicians, well-paid lobbyists and special-interest insiders taking the state in the wrong direction.

  

  Eric Greitens
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• The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Theory
  • Fail
  • While