“ We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ Facts do not "speak for themselves." They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. ”
- Thomas Sowell- Copy
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“ The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. ”
- Heywood Broun- Copy
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“ I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in. ”
- Amanda Burton- Copy
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“ Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ It is with theories as with wells; you may see to the bottom of the deepest if there be any water there, while another shall pass for wondrous profound when it is merely shallow, dark, and empty. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
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“ Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. ”
- Edith Hamilton- Copy
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“ It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failure. ”
- Samuel Smiles- Copy
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“ If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake. ”
- Brian Greene- Copy
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“ A wise man writes down what he thinks, a stupid man forgets what he thinks, a complete idiot punishes himself for what he thinks. ”
- Jason Zebehazy- Copy
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“ No theory is good unless it permits not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond. ”
- Andre Gide- Copy
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“ When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is. ”
- Judy Davis- Copy
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“ Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision. ”
- Stephen Jay Gould- Copy
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“ The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale. ”
- Charlotte Bunch- Copy
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“ O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be. ”
- Paul Feyerabend- Copy
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“ Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself? ”
- Cormac McCarthy- Copy
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“ A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
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“ Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it. ”
- Betty Cuthbert- Copy
- 172
“ She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next. ”
- Iggy Pop- Copy
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