W. H. Auden Quotes
Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
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You don't know who you will fall in love with. You just don't. You don't control it. Some people have certain things, like, 'That's what I'm going for,' and I have a subjective version of that. I don't pressure myself … If you fall in love with someone, you want to own them - but really, why would you want that? You want them to be what you love. I'm much too young to even have an answer for that question.
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I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.
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Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
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The Great Khali always serves up a good beatdown if you can't get out from under that heavy hand.
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Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.
