Edwin Boring Quotes
So far as consciousness goes, one does one's thinking before one knows what he is to think about.
Quotes to Explore
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After I spent my compulsory army service in the 'top secret office' of the Medical Forces, where I was fortunate to be exposed to clinical and medical issues, I enrolled to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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We are sufficiently at the mercy of machines, Roger; if our music must necessarily be mechanical, then it is time for us to throw in the sponge, and abandon all hope for the future of humanity.
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Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.
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I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.
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It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.
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I am not against acting in a Hindi film, but I will take it up only if the story is right.
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Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.
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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
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My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.
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I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.
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I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.
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I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually.
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We would like to solve everything that we could on our football team in free agency. That way you go into the draft and you're freewheeling.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Why do we love certain homes, and why do they seem to love us? It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in our surroundings.
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Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little.
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Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
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Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first place, is most pleasing to God, and most useful to ourselves. Do not then, O devout soul, refuse to begin this devotion; and forsaking the conversation of men, dwell each day, from this time forward, for at least half or quarter of an hour, in some church, in the presence of Jesus Christ under the sacramental species. Taste and see how sweet is the Lord.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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I really, really don't think that, outside of maybe some pink wigs, [that] there's anything that separates me from every other woman in America.
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There are 'extremists' in the free software world, but that's one major reason why I don't call what I do 'free software' any more. I don't want to be associated with the people for whom it's about exclusion and hatred.
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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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So far as consciousness goes, one does one's thinking before one knows what he is to think about.
