Discrepancies Quotes
45 quotes by 43 authors
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I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even…
— Amy Adams
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The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats…
— Helen Gahagan Douglas
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If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that the experimental results…
— Karl Popper
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It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the…
— Paul Dirac
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To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be…
— Fritz Zwicky
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The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the…
— Jeremiah P. Ostriker
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Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a…
— Harry Frankfurt
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To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and…
— Louis Auchincloss
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My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know … I don’t really want to get into it, but my mother…
— Chris Rock
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Well, my wife doesn't engage. I mean if you want to look back, really dig down and be a journalist, look at the timelines and…
— Eddie Cibrian
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Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to…
— Erich Fromm
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If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will explain the apparent…
— Timothy Zahn
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I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to…
— Sally Mann
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The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong…
— Margaret Mead
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In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate.
— Douglas Adams
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The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life…
— Vissarion Belinsky
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We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him…
— Christopher Lasch
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Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton’s mathematics…
— Brian Greene
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You have to tell your children about the world they live in, about the discrepancies, about the things that don't work… So you have to…
— Jacque Fresco
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