Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes
I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.
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It's very good for you, riding. You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I find horses to have the same effect, in that you have to put your ego aside and concentrate on making the horse do the things you want it to do, and move in the way you want it to move - particularly if you're doing dressage.
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
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Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
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There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
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Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they are released - usually a few weeks or days ahead of time. I don't review most of these products.
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Obviously I try to make the best music that I can, but after about two years of making an album, you start to worry: 'Is it going to come out all right? Is it all going to sound churned out?'
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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I feel happy to terrify kids.
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The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
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The Indian audience is getting exposed to world cinema and realising the power of unique plots and distinct characters.
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We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.
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Nothing matters if we aren't safe... The world has never been more dangerous than it is today.
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If you can work a brand successfully into the narrative of your product, then it's really cool. Then people actually take the brand up and say, 'My positive experience in your product is directly connected and influenced by this brand and that worked great.'
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So Far,So Good........................So What?
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I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.
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Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.
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The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman.
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I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.
