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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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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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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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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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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I hate birthdays.
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I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
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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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Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
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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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A lot of people live much more simply than in the old days. That doesn't bother me. Keeping busy is the problem. Television guest shot fees are going down. You can do a dozen guest shots a year, but you're not making that much money.
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Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
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You're an actor - people judge you and criticize you, and praise you and say you're great in equal measure.
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The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.
