Daniel Dennett Quotes
..the point of a randomizing device like a coin flip, is to make the result uncontrollable by making it sensitive to so many variables that no feasible, finite list of conditions can be singled out as the cause.
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The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
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Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.
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He who calls a person a fascist for opposing independence is not only wrong but putting themselves on the same level as those who call us Nazis for wanting independence.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.
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The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.
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One of my favorite guys when I was young... I've always loved Bill Cosby. I've always wanted to direct him in something.
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That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.
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I'll forget what day it is sometimes. I have to look in my calendar every once in a while.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
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For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.
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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
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Freedom. It's not something you go out and die for.
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An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.
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Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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I personally won't have anything live in my house that can't move the car on street-sweeping day or grate carrots. Plus, I don't mind being talked to harshly. I want to be challenged by something more complex than a Wheaton terrier.
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The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process.
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The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.
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I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell.
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We have to stop delivering the curriculum to kids. We have to start discovering it with them.
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Travel if you wish, taste strange dishes, gather experience in dangerous activities, but see that your soul remains your own. Do not become a stranger to yourself, for you are lost from that day on; you will have no peace if there is not, somewhere within you, a corner of certainty, calm waters where you can take refuge in sleep.
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You can always find ways to make it different, as long as it's a really well-written script and well-written character.
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..the point of a randomizing device like a coin flip, is to make the result uncontrollable by making it sensitive to so many variables that no feasible, finite list of conditions can be singled out as the cause.
