Elliott Sober Quotes
Instead of thinking of the question of race genealogically, and leaving it open whether vernacular races are genealogical units, the interest in biomedicine has been to determine whether vernacular racial categories are medically useful in diagnosis and treatment. There is on-going debate about this.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.
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People like to see showdowns.
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Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.
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Ist es denn wirklich so, dass wir jeden Dreck, der vom Westen kommt, nu kopieren müssen? Ich denke, Genossen, mit der Monotonie des Je-Je-Je, und wie das alles heißt, ja, sollte man doch Schluss machen.
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
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I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.
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For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.
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I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed.
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I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is.
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Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
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Phillip Noyce was not just good to me but an inspiration to me.
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While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.
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My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.
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Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.
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I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.
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Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
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None of you will ever know what I am thinking.
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Instead of thinking of the question of race genealogically, and leaving it open whether vernacular races are genealogical units, the interest in biomedicine has been to determine whether vernacular racial categories are medically useful in diagnosis and treatment. There is on-going debate about this.
