Charles Babbage Quotes
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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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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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.
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I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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I like spending time with my husband.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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I hate birthdays.
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Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
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Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.
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Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.
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I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.
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Reality is everywhere, and to find It 'you' must first disappear.
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Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
