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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I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.
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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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Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.
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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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I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.
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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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In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.
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Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.
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I have children, and they demand my full and complete attention. They get that when I'm at home, even during the night, but it is really hard, and I do wonder how a lot of women do it without bawling their eyes out every day.
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We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.
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Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.
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A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.
