Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes

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• Is there no way for two friendly souls to converse together, although the bodies are 400 miles off? Yes, by letter. But I want a better communication. I want to hear your think, or to see your thoughts.The conclusion of your letter makes my heart throb more than a cannonade would. You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.

  

  John Adams
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Thoughts

• They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.

  

  Edward Coke

• Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Done
  • Greatness

• Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.

  

  Nell Freudenberger
  • Different
  • Funny

• Cryptocurrencies are just one example of decentralized technologies.

  

  Melanie Swan

• Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Life
  • Literature
  • Recognition

• If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Work
  • Character
  • Scene

• Prayer can assume very different forms, from quiet, blessed contemplation of God, in which eye meets eye in restful meditation, to deep sighs or sudden exclamations of wonder, joy, gratitude or adoration.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • God
  • Different
  • Joy

• Yesterday, Attorney General John Ashcroft had surgery to remove his gall bladder. Doctors say the surgery was difficult because Ashcroft refused to take his clothes off.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Doctors
  • Surgery
  • Attorney

• I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how that is possible.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Teenager
  • Goes
  • Angst

• Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Women
  • Protect
  • Field

• There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • People
  • God
  • Reason

• But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop, the greater is the concentration of production and capital which gives rise to monopoly?

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Giving
  • Capitalism
  • Concentration

• A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Person
  • Made
  • Theory

• Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.

  

  William Penn
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Roots

• Love shouldn't make our choices for us; it should just add importance to our choices.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Love
  • Choices
  • Importance

• A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Goal
  • Leader
  • Yield

• He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Quotations
  • Wrapped
  • Emperors

• Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Falsehood
  • Yield
  • Quotations