Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
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To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.
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A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
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If they keep booing, and we keep winning, I don't care.
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Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.
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A mom has to be ready for anything.
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Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.
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There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.
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Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.
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The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.
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Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess
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You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabi'a al-Adawiyya while she was ill.
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People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.
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I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.
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Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment in which it lives, interlocked with other species to form ecosystems upon which our own lives depend in ways we have not begun even to imagine.
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Tom Brady is a great quarterback, he's a great player, and what you've seen with him is he's gotten better every year.
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When you slow down enough to sculpt, you discover all kinds of things you never noticed before.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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When you write for yourself, it's 100 percent all your essence.
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The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, unexpected, and contrasted with previous happiness or glory. A tale, for example, of a man slowly worn to death by disease, poverty, little cares, sordid vices, petty persecutions, however piteous or dreadful it might be, would not be tragic in the Shakespearean sense.
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The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
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Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
