“ I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home. ”
- Thom Gunn- Copy
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“ There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break. ”
- Michael Douglas- Copy
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“ Some might still think that Fidel Castro is guiding this revolution. We like Fidel very much but the ideological leader is Simon Bolivar. ”
- Hugo Chavez- Copy
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“ I think we ought to have a team out there somewhere today of Islamicists, Middle Eastern experts, academic experts and those things that says to us what could come next. ”
- Stansfield Turner- Copy
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“ I was putting forward a hypothetical proposition... and then said about it, it was morally reprehensible to recommend abortion of an entire group of people. ”
- William Bennett- Copy
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“ The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice. ”
- Elihu Root- Copy
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“ He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ The determination was made by us and Prudential that this project was strong enough that we could go forward on a speculative basis. ”
- Jonathan Davis- Copy
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“ If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush. ”
- Dawn French- Copy
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“ If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments. ”
- Albert Ellis- Copy
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“ The technology sector likely will , but it is not likely to revive the speculative situation we've seen over the last few months. ”
- Richard McCabe- Copy
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“ We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children. ”
- Oriana Fallaci- Copy
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“ Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league. ”
- Eric Clapton- Copy
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“ In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth. ”
- Baruch Spinoza- Copy
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“ I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. ”
- Auguste Comte- Copy
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“ All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
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“ Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages. ”
- William Pitt Chatham- Copy
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“ The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Despair, feeding, as it always does, on phantasmagoria, is imperturbably leading literature to the rejection, en masse, of all divine and social laws, towards practical and theoretical evil. ”
- Comte De Lautreamont- Copy
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“ It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics. ”
- Arnold Schwarzenegger- Copy
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“ I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. Alien, Blade Runner just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely emersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons. ”
- Christopher Nolan- Copy
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“ We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical considerations. It is the explanation, the only one that is tenable, of a remarkable and counter-intuitive reality. ”
- David Deutsch- Copy
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“ The Iowa Psychology Department was not Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. It was, indeed, an intellectually lively and demanding place where major theoretical issues were pursued with a passion. It was refreshingly free of colorless eclecticism. ”
- Albert Bandura- Copy
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