Herbert Spencer Quotes
Each new ontological theory, propounded in lieu of previous ones shown to be untenable, has been followed by a new criticism leading to a new scepticism. All possible conceptions have been one by one tried and found wanting; and so the entire field of speculation has been gradually exhausted without positive result: the only result reached being the negative one above stated, that the reality existing behind all appearances is, and must ever be, unknown.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Thought makes reality.
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I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.
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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
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Fear warps our understanding of reality and even our ability to see reality clearly.
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
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In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
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The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.
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The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.
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I want to play someone really dark, like a real bad guy on screen. But I am sure I won't be able to do so because my fans will not let me do it. They are aggressive. My image is such that no one will allow me to do a negative character.
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I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.
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Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus - not imitation.. .From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life - all movement and rhythm - time and light, color and mood - in short, all reality in Form and Thought.
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The hard part (of communication) is hearing criticism so it can be easily given.
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The critic does not pass judgment on the work; rather, art itself passes judgment, either by taking up the work in the medium of criticism or by rejecting it and thereby appraising it as beneath all criticism.
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It is not in the premise that reality Is a solid. It may be a shade that traverses A dust, a force that traverses a shade.
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When you have decided to purchase a farm, be careful not to buy rashly; do not spare your visits and be not content with a single tour of inspection. The more you go, the more will the place please you, if it be worth your attention. Give heed to the appearance of the neighbourhood, - a flourishing country should show its prosperity. "When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.
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I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong.
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I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.
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Education is not about thinning the herd. Education is about helping every student succeed.
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Each new ontological theory, propounded in lieu of previous ones shown to be untenable, has been followed by a new criticism leading to a new scepticism. All possible conceptions have been one by one tried and found wanting; and so the entire field of speculation has been gradually exhausted without positive result: the only result reached being the negative one above stated, that the reality existing behind all appearances is, and must ever be, unknown.
