Theory Quotes
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The important thing is what we do, and not the deceitful theory of reading others' intentions. This is also a new thing — they say: "We know that Iran's intention is to pursue nuclear weapons." Do you have a device that reads intentions?
Ali Larijani
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I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U.S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller.
Terry Eagleton
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When one theory is simpler than its competitor, this fact is relevant to saying what the world is like.
Elliott Sober
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It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the beauty of a combination, and that the combination is prettier by the magnitude of the sacrifices.
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
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As Trick points out, sports leagues aren’t concerned with determining the rankings as quickly and expeditiously as possible. Instead, sports calendars are explicitly designed to maintain tension throughout the season, something that has rarely been a concern of sorting theory.
Brian Christian
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One theory says that if you treat people well, you're more likely to encourage them to do what you want, making all the effort pay off. Do this, get that. Another one, which I prefer, is that you might consider treating people with kindness merely because you can.
Regardless of what they choose to do in response, this is what you choose to do. Because you can.
Seth Godin
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I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.
William Baziotes
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Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.
Witold Rybczynski
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If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.
Ivar Giaever
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It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.
Ben Miller
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Especially in gangster films, with the gangster's moll - she would always be more or less of an object. And I'm not convinced of this theory. Because I think even gangsters' women have brains. They think and even, as we say, have balls.
Sergio Leone
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The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I wanted to make noise, not study theory.
James Hetfield
Metallica
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We see the world in terms of our theories.
Thomas Kuhn
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Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.
Andrew Jackson Davis
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I think conspiracy theories have gotten more and more close to the mainstream because what you've got is a fragmentation of the media, where the media becomes much more polarized today, left and right.
Tony Blair
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Just because you have a nut theory it doesn't mean that you agree with other nut theories. In fact, it often makes you very hostile to them. After all, there's a limited pool there that we're all after.
Terence McKenna
