William of Occam Quotes
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.
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Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.
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I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
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I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.
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It's like a pylon.
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Here's what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided.
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I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.
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I've been a Yankees fan for a long time. When I was a kid in the mid-'70s, the Yankees were really great. They had Reggie Jackson in '77. I was 8 years old at the time. He hit three home runs to win the World Series in game six against the Dodgers, and I was just hooked.
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One thing that flying in space does for you is it gives you a change in perspective. We all have to live in the same place.
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Wrestling is ballet with violence.
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It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
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What shaped me the most would probably be when my dad passed away. For the rest of my life, I'll kind of feel like he's gonna come home.
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Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. ... other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it.
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I have Bright's disease and he has mine.
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Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky).
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I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.
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If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.
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The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.
