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?"
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
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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.
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I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.
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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.
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There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.
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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.
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It's always interesting when you're doing things yourself - getting the lighting, getting everybody together. It's exciting.
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If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.
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Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.
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Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of.
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I feel very settled. I'm not running in and out of clubs at 5 A.M. anymore.
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I wanted to show the world the real Pratyusha.
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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.
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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.
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I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable.
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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
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I'd never been in one of those great big blockbusters.
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Why not mix this and that? If soy goes well with fish, how come no one does beef carpaccio with soy? Why do we have such a taste and not another? It's all about culture. There is something, however, that I really don't like: bell peppers.
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What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.
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I'm proud to be Martha Stewart's daughter.
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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?"
