Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.
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The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
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My whole life, I feel so blessed. I met my wife: I can't get over that I got so lucky. I have two incredible children. I can't believe that I've been so blessed. I've had a career that is way past anything that I've ever dreamed. I get to work in all these different areas with such extraordinary people on every level.
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Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia.
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You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.
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I have popular support.
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Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.
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There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.
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If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.
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So, blind to Someone I must be.
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God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.
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I walked by myself through the city and urged angry young people to go home. I asked them to help the people who had been burned out.
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There are at least 18 dead in this barn. We've found the remains of at least 18. I'll think about this for months. I'll see it when I try to sleep. This is something you can't forget.
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Football is more important to me than money right now.
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I love you only because it's you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.
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But I don't want to be fine, not if it means she's going to let go of my hand; not if it means we're going to go back to being polite strangers.
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The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.
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I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that.
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There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
