Karl Popper Quotes

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

Karl Popper

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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.

Harlan Coben
- Live
- Dreams
- Vacation
Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.

Kate McKinnon
- World
- Real
- Progress
How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.

Valerie Plame
- Important
- Power
- Hope
A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.

J. K. Simmons
- People
- Different
- Family
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Good
- Bad
- Chance
We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and intelligently exploit the promise of new growth areas.

Yoshihiko Noda
- Growth
- Unique
- Promise