Edwin Boring Quotes
The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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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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Making products that we sell around the world stamped with three proud words: Made in the USA.
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Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else. #LoveWins.
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Get but a truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new born that drops into its place; And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake. Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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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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If you get beyond the political rhetoric and assembled a group to solve Social Security it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability.
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He hated the thought of the past; there was nothing that called out his love and fellowship toward the strangers he had come amongst; and the future was all dark.
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I studied political science at the Ecole de Sciences Politiques in Paris.
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Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.
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The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.
