George Trumbull Ladd Quotes
Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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You can't live your life through your children.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.
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I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamworks, so I really only ever worked in two studios.
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I love design.
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What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.
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I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.
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It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.
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Disobedience is one of the few tricks you have left to hang on to the idea that you continue to exist distinctively and are still reliably connected to the person who bore your name on the outside.
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The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed; ... because if the rule prevails, it includes all cases; and will determine them all, if we can only calculate its real consequences. Hence it will predict the results of new combinations, as well as explain the appearances which have occurred in old ones. And that it does this with certainty and correctness, is one mode in which the hypothesis is to be verified as right and useful.
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Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream.
