Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes
The final sentence here is an expression of what became known as the Pragmatic maxim, first published in 'Illustrations of the Logic of Science' in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 12 (January 1878), p. 286
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.
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Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.
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There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.
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To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.
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The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
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The final sentence here is an expression of what became known as the Pragmatic maxim, first published in 'Illustrations of the Logic of Science' in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 12 (January 1878), p. 286
