Edward Thorndike Quotes
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.
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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
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How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
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I like to create a nice environment and let people reveal themselves instead of trying to trick them or surprise them with a hidden question.
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I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.
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My hair walks into a room before I do.
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People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!'
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Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.
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The subject of philosophy is very ancient. The word means: 'The love, study or pursuit of wisdom, or of knowledge of things and their causes, whether theoretical or practical.' All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.
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Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church.
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I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
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What I may attempt is to dispel the feeling that in using the eye of the body or the eye of the soul, and incorporating what is thereby revealed in our conception of reality, we are doing something irrational and disobeying the leading of truth which as scientists we are pledged to serve.
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The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
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There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,- that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.
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I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life.
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Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.
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When I am on set or rehearsing for the play, the only thing I can talk about is the work I'm doing. In that way, I home in on what I am doing at the time. So maybe I am a terrible multitasker.
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The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
