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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I wish there was a word more than 'love' itself to convey what I feel for you.
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Whatever you are, whatever gifts you end up getting, you’ll find that time will make those changes less scary as well.
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You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.
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Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.
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When you are in your 20s and you're not married with kids, you're having fun. But when you're in your 30s and you're not married and don't have kids, you begin to develop a Peter Pan complex. As you grow older, you have more responsibilities and you have to step up to them.
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When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
