William of Occam Quotes
What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.
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The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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The creation of NIT has ensured some seats for admission in undergraduate courses for students of Arunachal Pradesh, which will bound to uplift economics of locality directly or indirectly and help in enhancing human development index in the state.
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I don't know if a government bailout will rescue America's auto industry, but I do know that if there is a bailout, it better come with a big, bright stop sign and lots of strings attached.
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I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.
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I've written books as acts of discovery: things I need to know and that I need to touch. And it's very dangerous work to deal with the most toxic internal elements... I feel like Madame Curie at my computer. I feel like I should be hemorrhaging from my eyes and ears.
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Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.
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Here is a bulletin from CBS News: in Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting.
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America isn't easy. America takes work.
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See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.
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I feel better about myself when I look my best. I always find the time to put on my powder and do my chignon.
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If we don't send people to Washington who, first of all, have done something more than talk for a living - which is what many politicians have done - nothing gets done.
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A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
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There have been situations where I have lost movies because I've said, 'This is not a fair deal,' and I've walked away.
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I'm a foodie, I'm always eating, I'm eating right now ...sometimes I get fat around the waist, but I don't care.
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Religion dies hard in the Irish.
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The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past.
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Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.
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I love you more than the pool hall, but not as much as football.
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What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.
