“ To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time. ”
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“ Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ”
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“ Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful. ”
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“ Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived. ”
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“ If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time. ”
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“ Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. Double description is better than one. ”
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“ It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. ”
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“ From the point of view of any agent who imposes a quantitative change, any change of pattern which may occur will be unpredictable or divergent. ”
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“ In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A. ”
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“ In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A. ”
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“ Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful. ”
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“ Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful. ”
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“ Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful. ”
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“ Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful. ”
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“ Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. Double description is better than one. ”
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“ Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful. ”
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“ It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. ”
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“ Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. ”
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“ Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition? we lose something of the ability to think new thoughts. And equally, of course, whenever we rebel against the sterile rigidity of formal thought and exposition and let our ideas run wild, we likewise lose… ”
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“ From the point of view of any agent who imposes a quantitative change, any change of pattern which may occur will be unpredictable or divergent. ”
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“ It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. ”
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“ Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived. ”
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“ We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. ”
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“ To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time. ”
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“ In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A. ”
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“ Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. Double description is better than one. ”
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“ Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived. ”
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