Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer (A.J. Ayer) Quotes
There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.
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There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.
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Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, that's all that matters.
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People tend to think that metabolism is genetically predetermined. That you're either cursed or you're blessed. And that's not true.
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Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.
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A court's assessment of an agency's compliance with statutory limits does not depend on whether the agency's policy is good or whether the agency's intentions are laudatory.
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How wonderful to know that Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral, but that it is a real, living, daily experience which goes on from grace to grace.
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There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.
