Maurice Allais Quotes
All science is based on models, and every scientific model comprises three distinct stages: statement of well-defined hypotheses; deduction of all the consequences of these hypotheses, and nothing but these consequences; confrontation of these consequences with observed data.
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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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My problem in calling for pressures on South Africa is to convince the youth to convince their governments and people that it is not the South African goods that are cheap, but the forced labor of the Africans.
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I think theater is a core need of a community.
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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.
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I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.
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The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.
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Art, rightly applied, provided humanity with the symbols, insight, and vicarious experience necessary to help one person place him- or herself in the shoes of another, and by so doing come to appreciate the commonality of human experience.
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I had no intention of being an entertainer.
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There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.
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A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler.
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All science is based on models, and every scientific model comprises three distinct stages: statement of well-defined hypotheses; deduction of all the consequences of these hypotheses, and nothing but these consequences; confrontation of these consequences with observed data.
