Eugenie Scott (Eugenie Carol Scott) Quotes
I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.
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No one today knows what is indecent.
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There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
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You want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to become a less distracted, more purposeful investor.
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I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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The most beautiful fate of a physical theory is to point the way to the establishment of a more inclusive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.
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The dead don't bother with particulars.
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The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.
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Everyone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs.
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Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.
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No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.
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When you do not know of a thing say so plainly.
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When Gerard took over, he was trying to get us back on track, but he was also trying to ease our pain. Now, it's a fresh start for everyone and it's time for us to make a move. He knows that and he's not letting anything slide.
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Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.
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To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn't decided what to believe.
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Don't throw yourself at someone because of who you think they are, throw yourself at someone because you know you're both in it for the memories.
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A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?
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I was 21. At the time, I was under the thumb of my label, and I felt like I had to do, say and act out everything they asked me to do. I was trying to please them and the public and finally I had to say, "Enough. I'm going to make a record that makes me happy and addresses all facets of being a woman. I don't care if I sell one or one million records." That's how I came to make Stripped.
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I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.
