Zeno Vendler Quotes
Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.
Quotes to Explore
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Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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Everything I say is true.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.
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I just love football.
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People in all walks of life, and especially business, do not want to experience the collapse of cities like New York along with global finance and economy in chaos, but this is what business faces if we continue to attribute climate change to fossil fuels alone.
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I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.
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We know it is impossible to go on finding, moving and wasting oil, leveling forests, paving land, dumping poisons, and multiplying our numbers. A new way of life, a new set of thoughts must be found.
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Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.
