Scott Adams Quotes
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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Every casting director I've met is a woman.
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered. The basic mechanics of conception require action in the male but nothing more than passive receptivity in the female.
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Up to a certain time I was cutting into things. Then I realized that the thing I was cutting was the cut. Rather than cut into the material, I now use the material as the cut in space.
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Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.
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The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.
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In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.
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It is not a good thing for a country to have a professional yodeler, a human trombone like Mr. Bryan as secretary of state, nor a college president with an astute and shifty mind, a hypocritical ability to deceive plain people … and no real knowledge or wisdom concerning internal and international affairs as head of the nation.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and coloured and put into cans.
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Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world.
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We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.