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In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

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There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

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Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with the capacity to feel, both physically and emotionally. Every day, I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves animals but helps the environment.

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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

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Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

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I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

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I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

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A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

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Know the quiet place within your heart and touch the rainbow of possibility; be alive to the gentle breeze of communication, and please stop being such a jerk.
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Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

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The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities.

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

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I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

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The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

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My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.

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I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.

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The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

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I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

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My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

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One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

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Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.
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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

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Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.

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Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

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That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?

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I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.

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I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.

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I just think the less you know about an actor, the more serious you'll take them as an actor because they will disappear a little bit.

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I wonder how we came to a point where our affection towards fellow humans is dictated only by political, tribal and religious sentiments.

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. Posthumous eulogies teach us that people who dislike you also quietly admire your sterling qualities. The dislike only stems from their frustration as a result of their inability to make you accept their convictions about things that are dear to them like religion or politics

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So if you make the dislike or perception of people the barometer by which you adjust your life-pattern, then you have completely missed it. Live your life according to the dictates of your conscience and your natural inclinations, so long as they’re within the bounds of legality

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The greatest lesson of COVID-19 is that it has blurred all the irrelevant differences of mankind which are politics, tribe & religion. It has slapped our brains back to reset mode and teaches us that the essence of life is about our common humanity and our common survival as a race

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It would appear that majority of those who demand accountability from public officers do so for selfish reasons as they really would not mind if they benefit from some unethical behavior of the public officers; their watchdog role is just to ensure that they are not ‘left out’

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Absolutely! One of the qualities of a good Leader. Always wanting to hear the truth whether it's painful or not.

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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

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Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

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You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go.

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So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.

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Movement is life and life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.

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Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.

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Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.

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I have multipersonality disorder - in a very good way, of course - when it comes to my fashion choices.

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