Karl Popper Quotes
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
Karl Popper
Quotes to Explore
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
Finn Wittrock
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. Milne
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
R. L. Stine
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
Natalie du Toit
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We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
Barbara Boxer
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
Karrine Steffans
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The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.
Jack Nicklaus
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In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.
Yannick Noah
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A lot of times with novels, you can get a really deep, engaging story, but there's not a lot happening, frankly. Those books tend to be super-literary and dense, and they require a lot of commitment, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, but if you want fast-moving action and gore and plot and excitement, you can get shorted on that.
Caitlin Kittredge
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I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.
Sabine Baring-Gould
