Abraham Kaplan Quotes
To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, "What would the world be like if it were true?" The operationist asks, "What would we have to do to come to believe it?" For the pragmatist the question is, "What would we do if did believe it?"Abraham Kaplan
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
Jack Schwartz -
Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.
Nancy Gibbs -
'Mixtape' sounds retro! I used to make lots of mixed tapes. It was one of those '90s things - every girl gave them to her best friend. I remember exchanging a few with a boy on a bus when I was 14. I thought he hated me, but in hindsight, maybe he was in love with me, because he gave me the best music.
Hannah Ware -
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Walt Whitman -
I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.
P. J. Soles
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The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.
Ibrahim Babangida -
There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.
Patrick Rothfuss -
I specialize in early homes, and what I care about the most is renovating a home and taking it back to its original construction idea.
Daryl Franklin Hohl -
It's always interesting when you're doing things yourself - getting the lighting, getting everybody together. It's exciting.
Dawn Angeliqué Richard -
If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.
Dean Norris -
Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.
David Packard
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Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of.
Jim Mitchell -
I feel very settled. I'm not running in and out of clubs at 5 A.M. anymore.
Jamie Dornan -
I wanted to show the world the real Pratyusha.
Pratyusha Banerjee -
I was aware that I was the first person of all time getting to direct a Wonder Woman film, and that was taken very seriously.
Patty Jenkins -
The best thing I could do is build a successful company and continue to innovate and be in the right role I want to be in. If I'm not doing that, I'm inauthentic. That's not a good role model to anyone. That, to me, is the most important thing.
Payal Kadakia -
I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable.
David Walliams
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There's no other rapper that will drop a better album than me. No one.
Dimitri Leslie Roger -
I've always had a love for making things my own.
Jennifer Hudson -
I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
Walter Cronkite -
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Oprah Winfrey -
To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, "What would the world be like if it were true?" The operationist asks, "What would we have to do to come to believe it?" For the pragmatist the question is, "What would we do if did believe it?"
Abraham Kaplan