Ian Hacking Quotes
Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.
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To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.
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Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
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I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.
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There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It's like, 'Just let them run it, then. Don't you give them ammunition.'
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I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick.
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I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.
