Abraham Kaplan Quotes
If we can predict successfully on the basis of a certain explanation, we have good reason, and perhaps the best of reason, for accepting the explanation.Abraham Kaplan
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We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.
Sabrina Carpenter -
There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
D. B. Weiss -
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
E. L. Doctorow -
I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
Aaron Sorkin -
There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.
Zac Posen -
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Galileo Galilei
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I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.
Dana Hill -
If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.
Gary Johnson -
Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
Randy Pausch -
Sometimes friends move apart from each other for whatever reason.
Magic Johnson -
No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.
Sam Kean -
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
H. L. Mencken
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For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.
Immanuel Kant -
Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
Aristotle -
I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.
Jason Aldean -
I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.
Janet Jackson -
There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.
Andy Rooney -
For some reason, Horror movies, they seem like good date movies. When you go to them it's all high school kids, all over each other, running up and down the isles, no one is even looking at the screen anyways, they figure they don't have to pay attention to the story anyways. We scream and yell... it's like mayhem.
Rob Zombie
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I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.
Steve Fossett -
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
Oscar Wilde -
A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off.
Kevin Keegan -
But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
Jack Dee -
If we can predict successfully on the basis of a certain explanation, we have good reason, and perhaps the best of reason, for accepting the explanation.
Abraham Kaplan