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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Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.
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We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from - and with - each other.
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I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them.
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Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology. It is not. It is also shaped equally by history and culture. China is not like the West, and it will not become like the West.
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Problem-solving is essential to engineering. Engineers are constantly on the lookout for a better way to do things.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
