Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes
A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.
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I don't believe in God.
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With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out.
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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If you take the fashion out of it, clothing has a lot of information - about how we feel about ourselves, how we'd like to feel about ourselves, and what we'd like to be: If you show up to an interview in sweatpants and a T-shirt, I'm going to deal with you in a really different way.
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I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.
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I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.
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I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit. But I began that way and so, that's the way it is. My ritual is I never use a typewriter or computer. I just write it all by hand. It's a ceremony. I go to a stationary store and buy a notebook and then fill it up.
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I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
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We've got to be proactive. It's my job to look for unconventional situations that achieve what my clients want.
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A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.
