E G Quotes
61 quotes by 58 authors
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In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who receive the money…
— Murray Rothbard
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I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science,…
— Max Born
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In geology we cannot dispense with conjectures: [but] because we are condemned to dream let us ensure that our dreams are like those of sane…
— Scipione Breislak
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...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of…
— Don Kates
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What is striking is these things [patterns in nature, e.g. fish stripes] do look like something that has been crafted. We are conditioned to think…
— Philip Ball
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No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we…
— Maximilian Kolbe
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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information…
— David Foster Wallace
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Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W.…
— David Foster Wallace
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Are global temperatures rising? Surely, they were rising from the late 1970s to 1998, but 'there has been no net global warming since 1998.' Indeed,…
— John R. Lott Jr.
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As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world,…
— Saint Augustine
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If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Of course, to avoid getting stuck in that convo with someone you dislike or feel uncomfortable around, don't be passive, be proactive. Do not let…
— Eugene Mirman
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Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising…
— Anatoly Karpov
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Obviously, certain sins often may escape detection. Homosexuals who practice behind closed doors are out-of-bounds for the courts, of course, unless others witness their criminal…
— Gary DeMar
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Through developing trusting and respectful relationships with the boys in our lives, we can help boys to value and acknowledge their relational capabilities, which they…
— Judy Chu
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There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each machine…
— Alan Turing
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To my mind, any phenomenon is para-cinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g. modularity with respect to space or time.
— Hollis Frampton
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It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be…
— Morris Raphael Cohen
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The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes in programs or…
— Richard E. Pattis
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Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the…
— Eric S. Raymond
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