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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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.
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Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.
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For me, it's about making art that's not good but phenomenal. James Baldwin didn't want to just stay above the fray. Prince didn't think, 'I wonder what the industry is gonna think about 'Purple Rain.'' It's just, is this honest? Is this real? Does this move me? The rest is icing.
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If we are interested in Christ by faith, notwithstanding our imperfections and sins, God will be our God through grace.
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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.
