Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
'It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given.' This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.
Quotes to Explore
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.
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Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.
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I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
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It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.
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I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
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I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.
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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
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I think some of my best theatre training has been in the Marine Corps. Not only meeting a bunch of characters, but growing up. You're in really adult situations at a young age, as far as being in charge of people.
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If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.
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In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.
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My problem is that I am perhaps too much of a democrat for this time of the country's life. If you need a dictator, then go to the Afghan people. Let them elect a dictator. I am not one of those.
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Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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In the grand scheme of the universe, that doesn't amount to a parasite on an ant on the butt of an elephant.
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She had said one time, make a choice and do it like Hercules. So if that is all of what is being offered, the idea is to always do it like Hercules and I always followed her advise and now I'm here talking to you.
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Harry Dresden: Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint.
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'It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given.' This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.
