Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
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We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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'Twin Peaks' was huge. I mean, it changed television; it was a huge hit, and it only went a season and a half. So that teaches you immediately that you just enjoy it for the time that you do it.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.
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It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.
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One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
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I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.
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I use egg whites and an olive oil-based hair mask that deep-conditions the hair and adds incredible shine.
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My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.
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I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.
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The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
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You could be the king but watch the queen conquer!
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But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.
