Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
Treating 'water' as a name of a single scattered object is not intended to enable us to dispense with general terms and plurality of reference. Scatter is in fact an inconsequential detail.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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God made them as stubble to our swords.
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I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
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I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.
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I'd love to play Spiderman, but I'm definitely too old for that role now.
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I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.
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The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
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America's Older Americans add great value to our Nation.
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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Treating 'water' as a name of a single scattered object is not intended to enable us to dispense with general terms and plurality of reference. Scatter is in fact an inconsequential detail.
