Banesh Hoffmann Quotes
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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I believe... we were told that the 'Bluetooth AirPods', whatever they are, can be used on anything that supports Bluetooth audio.
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
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Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball, and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.
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Setzen wir Deutschland, so zu sagen, in den Sattel! Reiten wird es schon können.
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First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.
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In our system of government, the president is not supposed to be above the law. He is not a king; his word is not the law.
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If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.
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But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys.
