Hermann von Helmholtz Quotes
What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes.
Hermann von Helmholtz
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With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
Jack Nicholson
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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
Eddie Huang
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
Orson F. Whitney
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It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.
Gail Collins
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It's those moments when everything is on the line, and someone needs to show up in a big moment. I prepare my mind and I prepare my body to be ready for those moments. And I think it's just what I do. I live for those moments.
Carli Lloyd
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
D. B. Sweeney
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I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I've mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age.
Sean Hannity
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We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath away. Looking at the ocean gave me the same sensation I'd get staring at a sky full of stars- that I was small. Like the way a math problem reveals its undeniable truth, I knew when I stared into this sort of endlessness that my life didn't count for much of anything. And knowing that, that I was nothing but a speck, I felt pretty lucky for all that I had.
Dana Reinhardt
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There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.
Arthur Dobrin
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
Warren Beatty
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Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.
Walt Whitman
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What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes.
Hermann von Helmholtz
