Karl Popper Quotes
There are many difficulties impeding the rapid spread of reasonableness. One of the main difficulties is that it always takes two to make a discussion reasonable. Each of the parties must be ready to learn from the other. You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismissed as a fiction. This is a horrific threat the international community should take seriously. As long as these weapons exist, so, too, does the risk of their use - by accident or design.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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I'm a great jazz fan.
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Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
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Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. That's why you are called a 'Christian.' If you remove Christ, there's only 'ian' and that means 'I am nothing.'
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Some of my fondest memories are holidays by the seaside.
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Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.
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My family has always been very close. Ever since I was a kid, everybody was always together, including my grandma. In the mornings, my mom would work, and my grandma would help me get ready and would walk me to school. We were all so close to her.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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There are many difficulties impeding the rapid spread of reasonableness. One of the main difficulties is that it always takes two to make a discussion reasonable. Each of the parties must be ready to learn from the other. You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.
