Douglas Hofstadter Quotes
In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.
Douglas Hofstadter
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
Karen DeCrow
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
Vikram Patel
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
Kate Moss
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When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?
Yami Gautam
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What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.
Olympia Snowe
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If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.
Taylor Swift
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
Frances Farmer
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We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.
Narendra Modi
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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!
Candice Olson
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
Walter Scott
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The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.
Taiye Selasi
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I think what makes his story unique from others is there is not really one piece of American pop music you hear today that does not have some James Brown in it.
James McBride
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With each technological ‘revolution’, more energies began to be accessed, stored, and used than had been in the preceding epoch…On the whole, technological change is irreversible: whatever the nature of a technological revolution, it is always from the hoe to the plough, and not the other way around…Improvement generally means greater efficiency in the use of energy, materials, or information. It means greater speed, less investment of time and money, and operation on a larger scale.
Ervin Laszlo
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I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
Vanilla Ice
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We haven't had any serious injuries or loss of life, and we'd like to keep it that way
Craig Fugate
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People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.
Virginia Woolf
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In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.
Douglas Hofstadter
