Ernest Sosa Quotes
Animal knowledge is metaphysically constituted by apt belief, by belief whose correctness manifests the believer's epistemic competence, a relevant disposition to get it right on the matter at hand when one tries to do so.
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We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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Living by myself out in Malibu has been really good. I kind of have my freedom; I've got a whole house to myself. The tough part comes when sometimes, you know, you get pretty lonely.
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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
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My fans have always loved my metaphors.
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We have been trained to broadcast our successes and hide our failures. But the truth is this: our failures humanise us, and they connect us to one another.
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If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
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The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.
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I'll spend time playing 'Call of Duty' and 'Medal of Honor.'
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For many young women, the dream of independence and a home of their own is a tantalising goal, while a lifetime devoted solely to catering for another person's needs would be hard to countenance.
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I always like to get a role where I think, 'Ah, I know this is probably going to be played like this, but I'm going to do it like this.'
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Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.
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From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.
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She still believes in classical economics, the allocation of resources under conditions of scarcity. Information doesn’t work that way.
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An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, - Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn, - mud from a muddy spring, - Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling, Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
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A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
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This is our fucking city! And nobody is gonna dictate our freedom. Stay Strong! (After the Boston Marathon Bombings)
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Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style.
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We don't want to read a book. We want to live an experience.
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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.
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Sometimes I wanted to take a memory - one perfect memory - curl up in it, and go to sleep.
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Animal knowledge is metaphysically constituted by apt belief, by belief whose correctness manifests the believer's epistemic competence, a relevant disposition to get it right on the matter at hand when one tries to do so.
