Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
To call a posit a posit is not to patronize it. A posit can be unavoidable except at the cost of other no less artificial expedients. Everything to which we concede existence is a posit from the standpoint of a description of the theory-building process, and simultaneously real from the standpoint of the theory that is being built.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
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I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.
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I'm not a religious freak, but I do believe that there is a higher power.
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In an era of social everything, we want to spark possibility and opportunity in the creative arts, in real life, person to person.
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My father was just a hell of a guy. He had a real strong sense of honor, and he tried to pass that on to me. I like to think that I embrace that.
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So many things that I was excited about as a kid were about proximity. The idea that somebody could grow up in rural Iowa and be into break dancing because of YouTube - that was a really simple, profound idea.
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To call a posit a posit is not to patronize it. A posit can be unavoidable except at the cost of other no less artificial expedients. Everything to which we concede existence is a posit from the standpoint of a description of the theory-building process, and simultaneously real from the standpoint of the theory that is being built.
