Imre Lakatos Quotes
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.
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Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
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It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
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My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
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We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.
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The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.
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If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
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Something as unique as 'Scrubs' is a tough act to follow. It's hard to find something that good that you want to really make a commitment to.
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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
