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 had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, 'We're black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we're all brought up differently.'
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But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.
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The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.
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I'm no health care expert, but you've got technology that constantly advances the ability to extend life and maybe improve lifestyle. That puts constant upward pressure on health care costs.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
