Edward Thorndike Quotes
The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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But only two people known by name were also called “Son of God.” One was the Roman emperor—starting with Octavian, or Caesar Augustus—and the other was Jesus. This is probably not an accident. When Jesus came on the scene as a divine man, he and the emperor were in competition.
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Even if I believed there was a real Jesus, I wouldn't fall for that line of hogwash. The "Virgin" Mary should get a posthumous medal for telling the biggest goddamn lie that was ever told. Anybody who believes that will believe that the moon is made out of green cheese.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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If only you knew how little I care. Cowardly or not, as long as he is a good kisser.
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We must make every effort to neutralize this threat peacefully, but be ever mindful of the growing danger Iran poses not just to a safe and free America, but to our allies abroad.
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The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
