Marvin Minsky Quotes
A memory should induce a state through which we see current reality as an instance of the remembered event - or equivalently, see the past as an instance of the present. ...the system can perform a computation analogous to one from the memorable past, but sensitive to present goals and circumstances.Marvin Minsky
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
T. D. Jakes -
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln -
There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
Frances Farmer -
I want to play in the WBC. That was one of my goals to represent my country.
Pablo Sandoval -
When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
Edmund Morgan -
There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.
Ioan Gruffudd
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It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
Maddie Ziegler -
That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
D. J. Cotrona -
I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.
Flume -
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
F. Sionil Jose -
You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.
Sally Field -
The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.
Ramana Maharshi
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You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.
Eddie Campbell -
I look forward to strengthening the U.S.-U.N. partnership and working closely with Secretary of State Kerry towards our shared goals of peace, development, and human rights.
Ban Ki-moon -
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
Manuel Puig -
I have volunteered for Musicians on Call for the past 12 years because of the incredible one-on-one experiences in hospital rooms when no one other than the patient and I would remember the love that was exchanged.
Rachel Platten -
I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.
Uma Thurman -
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
A. J. P. Taylor
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I moved away for three years and went to Trinidad where I met my wife, Athena.
Mathias Rust -
Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I.
Soren Kierkegaard -
For me, London is and always will be home.
Clive Owen -
I'm living the dream! I just want to tell actors and writers it's never too late, and it can happen when you least expect it.
Geneva Carr -
Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.
Willard Van Orman Quine -
A memory should induce a state through which we see current reality as an instance of the remembered event - or equivalently, see the past as an instance of the present. ...the system can perform a computation analogous to one from the memorable past, but sensitive to present goals and circumstances.
Marvin Minsky