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.Daniel Dennett
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Walter Gropius -
Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.
Barry Ritholtz -
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.
Carles Puigdemont -
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
Abraham Cowley -
Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.
Gavin Newsom -
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.
Dan Pfeiffer
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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.
Omari Hardwick -
I'll forget what day it is sometimes. I have to look in my calendar every once in a while.
Zach LaVine -
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.
Carly Rae Jepsen -
The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
Edmund Waller -
Freedom. It's not something you go out and die for.
Jack Bowman
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An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.
Zoe Foster Blake -
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.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
Barbra Streisand -
The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process.
Eddy Grant -
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.
Salman Rushdie -
I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.
Ville Valo HIM
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Globalisation has powered economic growth in developing countries such as China. Global logistics, low domestic production costs, and strong consumer demand have let the country develop strong export-based manufacturing, making the country the workshop of the world.
Ma Jun -
If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
Piers Anthony -
When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
Relationships are hard. If as an actor you marry an engineer or a doctor, it's really hard for them because they don't understand what your life is like. We live two lives. We have a 'reel' life and a real life.
Ranbir Kapoor -
Any performance I do, I give 110 percent.
DMX -
..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.
Daniel Dennett