William Stanley Jevons Quotes
A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.

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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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I can make the argument that people who don't have the biggest ranges but have very unique voices, even if they may be pitchy at times... with the right record that's really unique and distinct, they can have big hits.
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The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
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Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.
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I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabilities; I was completely by ear.
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Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.
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People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.
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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
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If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then you have the play. I was just always struck by that - that, of course, good drama is about conflict.
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There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs.
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The fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And 'they' might BE lemons.
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If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger.
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A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.
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A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.
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Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.
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We're really our own culture, and I think that's going to set us apart from the other purely restaurant connected casino concepts that are emerging. We have a very loyal following; millions go through our stores in a monthly basis. I just don't think they (other restaurant operators) have the culture and the following that we have because of our sports involvement and the Hooters Girls.
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Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.
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Warm-heartedne ss and concern for others’ well-being are a condition for happiness, whether you are religious or not.
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The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.
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A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.