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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I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.
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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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I don't have many easy songs.
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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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I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.
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I grew up on a farm. I didn't have health insurance until I was 24 years old. So, I didn't even know I was poor until the government told me I was poor.
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Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.
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I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.
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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.
