Edwin Boring Quotes
Introspectionism got its ism because the protesting new schools needed a clear and stable contrasting background against which to exhibit their novel features. No proponent of introspection a the basic method of psychology ever called himself an introspectionist.
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Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
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It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.
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Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.
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If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
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As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway...
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There are unfortunately not a few good professional physicists who still think about the world as if space and time had an absolute meaning.
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I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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I think I drift toward sad love songs.
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Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.
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I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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I watched the grey villages limp by, the wind tearing at torn posters of long-done events. What I needed, of course, was a drink.
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In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept is free from all the delays of its genetic evolution, an evolution which is consequently explained by simple psychology. The virility of knowledge increases with each conquest of the constructive abstraction.
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Introspectionism got its ism because the protesting new schools needed a clear and stable contrasting background against which to exhibit their novel features. No proponent of introspection a the basic method of psychology ever called himself an introspectionist.
