Ian Hacking Quotes
Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.
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I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!
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Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
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We want you to pay attention.
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Iggy Pop, or should I say Iggy's people, had reached out to me saying he was a True Blood fan, and if any opportunities come up, to please keep Iggy in mind. We sent Iggy the demo of 'LB&R'. He loved it and said, 'Sign me up.'
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.
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I stopped caring what people thought.
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The most important thing is to stay positive.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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Every time we get days off, we try to go home and record five or six songs.
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I train and prepare for every contest the same so I can compete to the best of my abilities.
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The writer must take the right to explore, warts and all, both the enemy and the beloved comrade in arms, since only a try for the truth makes sense of being, only a try for the truth edges towards justice just ahead of Yeats's beast slouching to be born.
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Petals are a plant’s eardrum. Distant sounds make them quiver like the needle of a seismograph.
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While the forces of repression need to win every time, the progressive elements need only triumph once.
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'Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.'
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Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research.
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True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist.
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If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, / May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear.
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Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.
