Karl Popper Quotes
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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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.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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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.
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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.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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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.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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They hate whom they fear.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.
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My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.
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There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, I mean, it's a really vulnerable place to be in. It's a huge thing to do.
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The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.
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For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
