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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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
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America is stronger than ever. We will forever remember those we lost on September 11, 2001. In honoring their memory, we will remain true to our commitment to freedom and democracy.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of a righteous peace to our country, I am upheld and sustained by the good wishes and prayers of God's people. No one is more deeply than myself aware that without His favor our highest wisdom is but as foolishness and that our most strenuous efforts would avail nothing in the shadow of His displeasure.
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The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
