William Stanley Jevons Quotes
The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects; and it is only so far, therefore, as we can discover and register resemblances that we can turn our observations to account.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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I hate birthdays.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
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Pushing people forward simply because of their colour, irrespective of merit, would be most unfortunate and would of course lead to disaster. It would mean that Rhodesia would then develop into a kind of banana republic where the country would in no time be bankrupt.
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Is anything more certain than that in all those vast times and spaces, if I were allowed to search them, I should nowhere find her face, her voice, her touch? She died. She is dead. Is the word so difficult to learn?
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If the government can round up someone and never be required to explain why, then it's no longer the United States of America as you and I always understood it. Our enemies have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They have made us become like them.
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Any man in the company of two women is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be.
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How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
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People can talk all they want; that doesn't affect how I go about my business.
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When I am talking about "It Takes a Village", I'm obviously not talking just about or even primarily about geographical villages any longer, but about the network of relationships and values that do connect us and binds us together.
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Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every generation - people who keep challenging convention and thinking up new ideas for the sheer hell of it or from an innate contrariness.
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The current debris population in low Earth orbit has reached the point where collisions will become the dominant debris-generating mechanism in the future.
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects; and it is only so far, therefore, as we can discover and register resemblances that we can turn our observations to account.
