Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
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Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.
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My silver cord – the link between my body and my spirit – was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.
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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
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We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.
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Though the demonetisation move should be welcomed, govt should have planned well in advance to ensure that no common man suffer.
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If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.
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'Lost' makes a lot of sense to me, philosophically.
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Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.
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We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
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I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.
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I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer's disease.
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Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.
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L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
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I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.
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It's one of the biggest benefits of being president that you really don't think about until you get here.
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Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.
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Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.