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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You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?' In this way we'd become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.
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I don't regret either of my marriages - not for a minute.
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Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present.
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Lack of time is a real health killer.
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This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom’s hallowed shade.
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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.
