Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.
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To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.
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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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I know that I have a special stomach.
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No one likes change but babies in diapers.
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I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.
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And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.
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I ran two campaigns for governor in a state that's 2-1 Democrat where I did not mention my opponent in print, radio, or television. I don't know if any other politician at a gubernatorial, congressional, or a senatorial level can make the claim.
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I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.
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I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.
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The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.
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Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.
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There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really peculiar in America. And then when you tell them, they're not interested, because it's also a country where everybody's opinion is their opinion, and they really don't give a damn what you think. So it's a very odd experience.
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I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.
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It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance against the enemy and the bullet might miss you. Retreat, evade, betray and the bullet would never miss.
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I realized the wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way by carving it.
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Not only the artist but everyone 'becomes someone else' in becoming someone. One is thought about, thus invented. Or as Steinberg put it with memorable succinctness in his Cogito drawings, 'I think, therefore Descartes is.' One creates not oneself but another. Being is in the act.
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My concern is with the rhythms of nature.. .I work inside out, like nature.
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When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
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[When I was a kid] I was a surgeon, amputating legs and arms of my paper dolls. And I had a little board with little tacks that I would tack them down to do this.
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I've never supported one penny of tuition increases.
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You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.
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I won't do 'Strictly' or any of those ghastly reality programmes. 'I'm a Celebrity' would be the end. It makes me shudder.
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At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.
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The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.
