Cleveland Abbe Quotes
True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.
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I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
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Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.
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I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.
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Every casting director I've met is a woman.
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There is talk that badminton may not make it as a sport in the 2020 Olympics. We must bear in mind that other sports are strongly lobbying to be included.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there; Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate And the Warder is Despair.
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Laws with broad definitions of rape are like laws making 55 mile per hour speed limits for men and no speed limits for women.
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Liebende … wenn ihr einer dem andern euch an den Mund hebt und ansetzt –: Getränk an Getränk: o wie entgeht dann der Trinkende seltsam der Handlung.
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I kept hearing that metal is dead and Ozzy's dead and people that like Ozzy are dead. I have never had an empty seat. I've always sold out, so who's saying it's all over?
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Men's wishes are not always vain, nor is every life too brief to satisfy its possessor. Only when we attempt, from the point of view permitted by physics and biology, to sum up the possibilities of collective human endeavour, do we fully realise the 'vanity of vanities' proclaimed by the Preacher.
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My family and I are hooked on 'The Searchers.' I can't get enough of it.
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I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it or just to make it weird, and it doesn't really have a story.
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Should the discovery of fire have been avoided because arsonists can misuse it? Any kind of information can be misused by those who are determined to do so. The place to stop the misuse of knowledge is not at the point of inquiry, but at the point of misuse.
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The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.
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It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova.
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Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.
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True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.
