William of Occam Quotes
When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
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If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.
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I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
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Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.
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I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's what I want.
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I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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In our league, it comes right down to the end.
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I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I've loved trainers since my youth - limited edition, vintage, whatever. You could recognise people and judge their character through their trainers. I'm a Nike man.
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Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
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Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
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My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
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You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.
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As far as the UFC, if they offer us a fair deal, then we would be open to fighting in the UFC.
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You and I, we’re good alone. But together? Together we’re unstoppable.
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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
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What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.
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During challenging times and when impassioned to act, human beings can be capable of miracles.
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When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
