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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There are two rules for achieving anything. Rule No. 1: Get started. Rule No. 2: Keep going.
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I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day. It's fantastic to be invited; I'm so happy.
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We should not be making near-term decisions with long-term consequences without robustly debating these questions and fully considering the substantial and unpredictable risks of these actions.
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A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.
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I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.
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A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.
