Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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I love creative people.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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I love action movies.
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To survive is to win.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
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The genetic systems is not closed, therefore. The genes do not simply hold information without any reference to the body’s living system. It does not exist, then - the genetic structure - like some highly complicated mechanism already programmed, started and functioning blindly so that once it is set into operation there is no chance for modification.
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God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.
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Lacking a filter, they are on constant sensory overload. In order to cope, they try to shut themselves down and develop tunnel vision and hyperfocus. If they can’t shut down naturally, they may enlist drugs or alcohol to block out the world. The tragedy is that the price of closing down includes filtering out sources of pleasure and joy, as well.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.
