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.
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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
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A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
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You need to have time to really hear God.
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We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.
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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.
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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.
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Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.
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I wouldn't take on the project unless I could have complete creative control in casting.
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There is great need today for the New Testament prophet who speaks to edification, exhortation, and comfort, a strengthening, stirring and soothing ministry.
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We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.
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I was seeing this girl recently and used to call her up saying I missed her. I can't help it after a few drinks!
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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.
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Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself.
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To minimize market uncertainty and achieve the maximum effect of its policies, the Federal Reserve is committed to providing the public as much information as possible about the uses of its balance sheet, plans regarding future uses of its balance sheet, and the criteria on which the relevant decisions are based.
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Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.
