Elliott Sober Quotes
If you have evidence that C1 is a cause of E, and no evidence as to whether C2 is also a cause of E, then C1 seems to be a better explanation of E than C1&C2 is, since C1 is more parsimonious. I call the version of Ockham's razor used here "the razor of silence." The better explanation of E is silent about C2; it does not deny that C2 was a cause. The problem changes if you consider two conjunctive hypotheses.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun's image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea's surface and to the sun itself.
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I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy roads, and these two snowmobilers were racing up a hill and they weren't looking, so they caught me as I was going up the other side of the hill, and they smashed into me.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
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Bring together what is good for business with what is good for the world.
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As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.
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I love knowing exactly what you're putting onto your skin and about the ingredient benefits of those products.
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Cyber weapons won't go away, and their spread can't be controlled. Instead, as we've done for other destructive technologies, the world needs to establish a set of principles to determine the proper conduct of governments regarding cyber conflict.
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I always go for the underdog or the rogue or the rebel.
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Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.
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Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
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Name a country, and I have probably been there.
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I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.
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We don't intend to exit any market. We pride ourselves on having the widest range of products in the industry.
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When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears, That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.
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It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.
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The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
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If you have evidence that C1 is a cause of E, and no evidence as to whether C2 is also a cause of E, then C1 seems to be a better explanation of E than C1&C2 is, since C1 is more parsimonious. I call the version of Ockham's razor used here "the razor of silence." The better explanation of E is silent about C2; it does not deny that C2 was a cause. The problem changes if you consider two conjunctive hypotheses.
