Elizabeth Spelke Quotes
I don't place much faith in my intuitions, except as a starting place for designing experiments.
Elizabeth Spelke
Quotes to Explore
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I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
Zeresenay Alemseged
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
Harrison Birtwistle
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
Xenophon
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Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.
Barry Ritholtz
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The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
P. J. O'Rourke
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He swayed in the strong wind that pressed against his back. He swayed forward, on the brink of the high cliff. And his right foot, his enormous iron right foot, lifted-up, out, into space, and the Iron Man stepped forward, off the cliff, into nothingness.
Ted Hughes
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It is important to call on God to intervene in our life, especially when we reach the point where we ourselves have become helpless.
Ben Carson
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Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards ...
Margaret Fuller
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Tupac is taking the message to black kids and a lot of white kids, going 'This shit's happening on the streets.' Well, I'm from a different part of the black community. Why is Orleans Woods in Charleston, South Carolina, less 'valid' than Compton?
Darius Rucker
Hootie & the Blowfish
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The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky. If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.
Henry David Thoreau
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Oh please...As a standup, I tried to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room. Not necessarily in that order.
Lea DeLaria
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Why you gotta act like you know, if you don't know? It's okay if you don't know everything.
Ben Folds
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You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.
Bernhard Langer
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Jackie Kennedy was the most appropriately dressed first lady we've ever had. You can see how lasting Jackie's style is.
Lynda Resnick
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In school, writing was the only thing that really came naturally to me, but it wasn't until college that I realized that I could do it for more than just fun.
Sarah Dessen
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I traveled with then-Senator Obama to Israel in 2008. I will never forget our time in the holy city of Jerusalem and following behind him as he approached the Western Wall - and even in the dark hours of that very early morning, it was a place bustling with energy afforded by one's faith.
Denis McDonough
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Ultimately, when you write from a vantage point of faith, humility, and openness to the world around you, people have to respond because those same truths are instilled in them.
Mat Kearney
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I don't place much faith in my intuitions, except as a starting place for designing experiments.
Elizabeth Spelke
