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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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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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
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We keep calling for accountability and reinvestment and a push for all of us to imagine a world where black people are not policed but instead supported and loved and cared for. Where our families can feel safe and inspired and protected.
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If you want someone, you have to be willing to wait for them and trust that what you have is real and strong enough for them to wait for you. If somebody jumps ship for you, that fact will always haunt you because you'll know they're light on their feet. Spare yourself the paranoia and the pain and walk away until the coast is clear.
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All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad.
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Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.
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When I made a big effort in '96 and it is not - I squeezed and I arrested a part of [terroristic groups].
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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.
