Dan Sperber Quotes
Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.
Dan Sperber
Quotes to Explore
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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
Haile Gebrselassie
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A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
Irene Dunne
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You need to have time to really hear God.
Karen Kingsbury
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We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.
Ed Wood
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Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.
John Paul DeJoria
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Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.
Buzz Aldrin
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Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.
Angela Davis
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I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
Katharine Hepburn
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As a team the increased fuel costs, naturally, affect your budget. Figure this: the transporter that we run gets about 6 1/2 to 7 miles per gallon at best, 4 1/2 at worst. Obviously, the increased fuel cost makes a considerable difference, especially with all of these trips we're making to the West Coast now.
Eddie Charles Jones
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I wouldn't take on the project unless I could have complete creative control in casting.
Craig Brewer
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As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.
Drew Carey
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Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein
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When away from home always be like the kind of man you would care to take into your own home.
William J. H. Boetcker
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Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds!
William Kamkwamba
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Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
Archibald Alexander
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I try to ONLY ridicule people who's efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts. An occasional seduction maybe. There were very few insincere Stalinists or Nazis.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
Thomas Carlyle
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What sort of man is this, who over and over again, gave numerous details about His death, months before it occurred, and added to each such utterance that on the third day after His decease He would rise again from the dead - and DID RISE, as even the city of Jerusalem soon came to believe? No other founder of a great world religion (or a small one) ever made such statements, or ever came forth from the dead.
Wilbur Moorehead Smith
