William James Quotes
Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.
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The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.
Irena Sendler
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The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.
Naftali Bennett
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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
Garry Trudeau
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The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
Barry Commoner
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Architecture is invention.
Oscar Niemeyer
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But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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We should have more invention.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
Han Suyin
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I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.
Christina Aguilera
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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
Hans Kung
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Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.
Garry Winogrand
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For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
Wayne Shorter
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What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?
Ted Dekker
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In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.
Andrew Mason
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If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
Andrew Solomon
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This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
Angelina Jolie
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
Rita Mae Brown
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Why does gender appear in this primal scene of humans meeting their evolutionary successors, intelligent machines? What do gendered bodies have to do with the erasure of embodiment and the subsequent merging of machine and human intelligence in the figure of the cyborg?
N. Katherine Hayles
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The world is a big place, and there are many paths that lead to success. This applies to both political and economic concepts. For this reason, we see no need to stoically pursue the Chinese, American or French way. But we have socialism in common with China.
Nguyen Minh Triet
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Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.
William James