Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes
A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, 'It lightens and it thunders,' is conjunctive, 'It lightens or it thunders' is disjunctive. Each such individual act of connecting a pair of statements is a new monad for the mathematician.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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Whenever I go on the red carpet and I'm a bit nervous, I just say to myself the mantra, 'Come on Barbara, you gotta get those pictures posted on Instagram!' That's all I have in my mind, like, 'Look serious now, maybe give a little smile, but a cheeky one,' but in the end, it's never how it looks.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.
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Where the eagle glides ascendingThere's an ancient river bendingThrough the timeless gorge of changesWhere sleeplessness awaits.
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The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
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However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
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One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making.
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A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, 'It lightens and it thunders,' is conjunctive, 'It lightens or it thunders' is disjunctive. Each such individual act of connecting a pair of statements is a new monad for the mathematician.
