Edwin Boring Quotes
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.
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We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.
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Food service is a growth area for PepsiCo.
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What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
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If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.
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I guess what I learned about myself is I'm a bit of a socialist; I want everyone on the set to get equal treatment and credit.
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I'm not saying I'm wealthy. The best thing that ever happened to me in that context was turning everything over to Rita. And the business people. I am on a leash. That's not the end of the world.
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Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life.
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Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up.
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Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table so people concentrate on the work.
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Art is elimination of the unnecessary.
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We have nothing in our account but zeroes! And yet, because of His great love, God forgave us our astronomical debt.
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When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.
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Doing an experiment is not more important than writing.
