Edwin Boring Quotes
The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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Give peace a chance.
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There is talk that badminton may not make it as a sport in the 2020 Olympics. We must bear in mind that other sports are strongly lobbying to be included.
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Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those things were calibrated for white skin. We've always placed powder on skin to dull the light. But my memory of growing up in Miami is this moist, beautiful black skin.
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Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Can't is the cancer of happen.
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We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.
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Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.
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Shooting this show is pretty intense. You lose your life. But I have no life, so it's perfect!
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You sign your life away, basically, when you sign a record deal, and if you have a platinum album, then you go back in and renegotiate.
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Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.
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I started buying ill, obscure records, and then I saw Portishead and Air live, and my mouth was on the ground.
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Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.
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I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.
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If Real want me, they will call me one day, and, if not, no problem. I live my life and am optimistic about the future.
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Education is the social bedrock for the hopes and dreams of our children and the foundation that is necessary for their future prosperity.
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The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.
