Allen Tate Quotes
Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.
Allen Tate
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It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.
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It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.
Bill Fagerbakke
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I'm very confident with myself and, like, yeah, everyone has little issues about themselves, but I don't, you know... I don't really worry about it.
Joanna Krupa
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Each day, I choose my age.
Blake Lively
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On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, skilled workforce in the vital areas of science, math, engineering and information technology. At the same time, we must give every student access to a college degree.
John F. Tierney
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North Koreans are forced to work at state jobs in a moribund economy. Countless parents watch their children go to bed hungry. Many North Korean families feel they have no option but to try to escape.
Lee Hyeon-seo
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I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.
Charles Dickens
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Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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You could be attached to merely a description of a plant or a flower. Or a narrative of an event. Or rage at injustice. Isaiah and the other Hebrew prophets, in their rage, were being altogether attached - not at all detached, although as I think of the word "detachment," I also think of a sheet of paper, loose from its notebook, fluttering around somewhere in the wind trying to find its home again.
Gerald Stern
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The indispensability argument seeks to assimilate the epistemology of metaphysical statements to the epistemology of statements that are obviously empirical. I think it fails to achieve this goal. The argument does not refute the Carnapian thesis that scientific theories and metaphysical claims differ epistemologically - observations can provide evidence for the former, but not for the latter.
Elliott Sober
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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
Gerard De Nerval
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Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.
Allen Tate