Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

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• I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Believe
  • War
  • Death

• You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Inspiration
  • Suggestions

• The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Important
  • Family
  • Daughter

• I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Future
  • Down
  • Plan

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Important
  • Hope
  • Language

• I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Space
  • Kind

• Working gets in the way of living.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Way
  • Working
  • Living

• With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Possibilities

• There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Yourself

• If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Money
  • Credit
  • Bitcoin

• I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our projects was collecting snakes and creating an environment for them, so I'm quite familiar with snakes and think they're fantastic creatures.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Environment

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • True
  • Die
  • Play

• Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Like
  • Body
  • Your Body

• When I was going through my chemotherapy, I realized not many people are willing to talk about cancer, even after getting fully cured. Celebrities and educated people are also very protective and private about it. I still haven't understood why. I decided to fight my battle out in the public.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • People
  • Why
  • Fight

• I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Perfection
  • Excellence
  • Days

• I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Time
  • Think
  • Better

• I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • Writing
  • Creativity
  • Mathematics

• The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Work
  • God
  • Light

• I'm very low-key. I don't really blend in, so it's difficult to go out in public. I like to do things that are kind of quiet, whether it's a dinner at my house or a restaurant, or a movie night at home.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Home
  • Movie
  • House

• Don't be afraid, Queen ... don't be afraid, Queen, the blood has long since gone into the earth. And where it was spilled, grapevines are already growing.

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Blood
  • Afraid
  • Queen

• Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant
  • House