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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
The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have proved… — John Polkinghorne
Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way. — J I Packer
Every climate scientist has his or her own views on some issues that differ from the mainstream in detail. But the broad findings of the… — Ross Garnaut
I am withdrawing because I have come to view the part of the IPCC to which my expertise is relevant as having become politicized. In… — Christopher Landsea
Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed to the idea that talking… — Vaclav Klaus
Obviously, the best dressed awards is very relevant, I'm best dressed at all times.(smiles) — Robert Pattinson
Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task that… — Lev S. Vygotsky
What must novel dialogue . . . really be and do? It must be pointed, intentional, relevant. It must crystallize situation. It must express character.… — Elizabeth Bowen
I will be writing to the relevant authorities to complain, but I'm wasting my breath. — Joe Royle
Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest -… — Peter Singer
Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory. — J. David Lewis-Williams
What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and identifying itself? By… — John Dewey
However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is some assurance that… — Paul Krugman
All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant… — Winston Churchill
We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. Instead of idly debating the precise extent of… — John McCain
Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything… — Twyla Tharp
The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information,… — Robert Reich
However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems. — Robert Huber
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. — Stephen Gardiner

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