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argued common darwin fix galileo machines man shares
In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis. Herbert A. Simon
argued gone
We've argued about it. ... We've gone around in circles,
argued centers convention faced gone hoped lots perform pittsburgh
What has gone on in Pittsburgh is what has gone on in lots of other cities, which are often faced with convention centers that don't perform as their proponents had hoped or promised, and so it is argued that what you need is an adjacent hotel.
argued behavior best party political possible predictor remarkably scientists sticky time
Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time. Rick Perlstein
argued call happen
When I got the call about the accident, I thought it was a joke, ... I argued with the paramedic who called. These things don't happen at 9:20 in the morning.
argued browser companies course errand others site web works
Many thought it was a fool's errand - that the browser companies were never going to listen to us. Others argued that, 'Users don't care if you use Web standards.' Well, of course they don't. They just know that your site works better. Jeffrey Zeldman
argued diets-and-dieting fighting gather helm issues opinions people serious taking together
The people are questioning if the DPJ is really serious about taking the helm of government. (I'll) first gather the party's opinions together and let important issues be argued out in the Diet. That's my fighting stance. Seiji Maehara
argued discussion happiness huge
There's often a discussion about, 'Well, how do we know what happiness is? Is it real?' I've always argued that all of us know that there's a huge difference between how we feel when we feel happy and when we don't feel happy. Helena Norberg-Hodge
argued hearing open people run running
If I just want to 'start a conversation,' I don't need to run for office. As a matter of fact, it could be argued that many people are more open to hearing you if you're not running for office. Marianne Williamson
country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. Charles Caleb Colton
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
country sadness men
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.
country self names
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
easy monopoly legislation
I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature. Alan Greenspan
easy crosses lays
Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another Aiden Wilson Tozer
easy easy-things
Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
easy it-takes-time take-time
Change isn't easy, it takes time. Caroline Kennedy
easy hard
Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo. Catherine Ryan Hyde
easy fight leaving problem ready union work
The percentages are low, no question, ... The work is leaving the workers. This outsourcing is a problem for union and non-union workers. Labor's never had it easy but we're ready to fight for workers' rights.
easy faces game half knew second stay stops tough
We started the game with stops and conversions, and we started the second half with stops and conversions. ? We knew we had to make it tough for them to score. We had to stay in their faces all night. No easy baskets. Louis Orr
easy struggled
We struggled through it, and nothing ever comes easy for us. Frank Robinson
easy embark feeling feels felt harder keeps knew might since time toes whenever
The more I act, the harder it gets, since I feel like I still have so much to learn. Whenever I embark on a new project, it always feels like the first time. If it were easy to me and I felt like I knew everything, my acting might have been different. I think the feeling of 'newness' keeps me on my toes and concentrated. Lee Byung-hun
found presence-of-god absolutes
True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God.
found frustrating
I never found it frustrating not speaking. David Selby
founders humans
The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them. David McCullough
found industry bits
It's changing a bit, but the thing in LA is everyone is either in the industry, or knows someone who is in the industry. So, they don't let on that they recognize you, that's what I've found out. Catherine Bell
found late post scandal whatsoever yesterday
The Post found out about this late yesterday afternoon. They had no inkling whatsoever a scandal was brewing.
found good help jason jefferson job richard struggled
We struggled with Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson but we found a way to help each other and I think we did a good job tonight. Mehmet Okur
found friendly offer ourselves quickly shocked together
We are making a friendly offer to Reynolds, ... We were shocked when we found out that Alcoa had made its offer and we assembled ourselves as quickly as we could to put together this proposal.
foundation emotion reason
Emotion is the foundation of reason. David Brooks
foundation donation
I am the donation to the foundation. Baron Davis
inadequate refer slowly
While the word 'bisexual' was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate. Charles M. Blow
inadequate plans
We had plans for a 5,000-square-foot library, with inadequate parking.
inadequate kinds list people rich
Read the rich list in Forbes. When you see all these people with all different kinds of money, it will make you feel inadequate and keep you focussed. Damon Dash
inadequate planning problem
There was inadequate planning, inadequate recognition of the problem at every level. Jack Reed
inadequate materials rock slope strength support
The strength of the materials was inadequate to support the slope over time. It was a soil-like material, not a rock material. E. B. White
inadequate increase policies pursue supply
As long as we do things or pursue policies that don't increase the supply, then what we'll find on the other end is inadequate supply and spiking prices, Dick Cheney
inadequate logistics partly rivalry soldiers within
In many regions, soldiers are too emotionally involved, partly because of inadequate logistics support, and of rivalry or (ineffective coordination) within the army.
inadequate levels offers risk
The offers are inadequate and would entail unacceptable levels of risk.
inadequate routine tests
You can't. Routine tests will not show inadequate intake.
itself strength
One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.
itself lend setting troubled
With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls. Louis Sachar
itself outcome risk shows
The outcome itself shows it was an unreasonable risk.
itself legitimacy thus
Where 'Paranormal Activity' really comes into its own is its rhetoric of legitimacy - how it uses itself to authenticate itself, and thus furthers the pretence of being real. Stephen Graham Jones
itself left microsoft
What's left under MSN -- MSNBC? Microsoft just divested itself of that, too.
itself plan rules
The plan itself is still being drafted. We're working with HUD on rules and regulations.
itself ok stopped stuff sundance
There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago. Robert Redford
itself knew music
The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was. Enya
itself knocking narrative starts
When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it. Jim Crace
kept looked people stopped
We stopped the run, we stopped the pass, we kept people out of the end zone, ... but yet we still get looked down upon. Brian Dawkins
kept lose
When you've got a young inexperienced quarterback, the first thing you think of is 'Son don't lose the game,' ... He didn't lose the game. He kept us from losing. Bobby Bowden
kept played plugging results tribute
We actually got after it better. We played harder. It's a tribute to the kids. They've kept plugging away. It was important for them to see some results come out of the work.
kept
We were told we would be kept up on the time. If we don't have a scoreboard, we shouldn't play at that field.
kept worse
Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better. Christine Baranski
kept knew later picking wore yards
We knew what we had to do and we just kept going after them. I think we really wore them down and later on we were picking up big yards on runs.
kept knew lead run
We knew they were going to make a run, we weren't going to be able to keep a (big) lead on them. They made a run, they made a big run in the third, but we kept our composure. Carmelo Anthony
kept knew
We knew they were going to make a run. We knew they were going to get hot, but we kept our composure. E. O. Wilson
kept love saying versus work yes
Verne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie. Mike Myers
manners cowardice characteristics
Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice. Edward Everett
manner police reason school search seize seized single suspect whether
Whether the police or a school want to search or seize a person, it has to be done in a manner that's reasonable. There was no reason to suspect any single person in that hallway, yet every single person in there was forced, with no choice, and seized by police in a completely unreasonable manner.
manners morals
He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist. William Gilbert
manners nobility bad-manners
There is no nobility with bad manners.
manner nobody righteous sermons
As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song. Curtis Mayfield
manner quick safe
We are continually working to get the refinery back up in as quick and as safe a manner as we can.
manner operating
We are operating in a manner that we unfortunately must do, under the circumstances." ()
manners courtesy persons
The greater person is one of courtesy. Alfred Lord Tennyson
manner recognized work
We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy. Sidney Altman
meant satire scratch
Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again. Maajid Nawaz
meant term using
We all know what is meant by the term 'international community,' don't we? It's the West, of course, nothing more, nothing less. Using the term 'international community' is a way of dignifying the West, of globalising it, of making it sound more respectable, more neutral and high-faluting. Martin Jacques
meant moment sort
What's it all about, Alfie? /Is it just for the moment we live? /What's it all about when you sort it out, Alfie? /Are we meant to take more than we give or are we meant to be kind? Jude Law
meant player shy taking team ultimate
She has meant so much to our program. She is the ultimate team player and didn't shy away from taking the big shots.
meant reached time
She reached out at a time that meant a lot to me. Pat Summitt
meant season team weekend
She willed us not just to win, but to play like this. Erika has meant everything to this team all weekend and all season long. Jennifer Rizzotti
meant met
And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.
meant
I'm a strong believer in 'everything is meant to be for a reason.' Nicole Scherzinger
meant movies
I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore. Liam Neeson
past political reform
Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.
past men miracle
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.
past water people
"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."
past self years
Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living for self or in His will; Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what s done for Christ will last. Charles Studd
past done lasts
Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.
past years tvs
My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema). Charles Stross
past years judging
It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago. Charles Spurgeon
past giving video
Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune. Alanis Morissette
past puppets driven
We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us. Alan Watts
questions
We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates. Clint Hurdle
questions sit spend talk time
We're going to sit down and talk about everything, ... I've got a lot of questions for him. I'm going to spend all the time I can with him. Michael Vick
questions sort
We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.
questions
There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.
questions talking
Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.
questions
I don't think it's mental, I just think that questions our toughness.
questions repeat run senior whether work
I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.
questions raise
I would say they also raise more questions than answers.
questions
He is very sharp. No one has any questions that he is well-qualified. Larry Sabato
scales planets chemicals
We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched. David Suzuki
scale trying
Most often I am only interested in an idea if it's going to get hundreds of millions of users. That's the scale that I am always trying to play to. Reid Hoffman
scales teach
Do things that won't scale; it will teach you. Brian Chesky
scale
We're about to scale something now that couldn't have been scaled before. Ginni Rometty
scale towards worries
On the scale of someone who's really laid-back about stuff and someone who worries a lot, I fall more towards the latter. Anne Hathaway
scales truth
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. Ann Voskamp
scale woven
Everything around us is scale dependent. It's woven into the fabric of the universe. Geoffrey West
scale scaling
We are scaling it back. It's going to go off but not on the scale of $20,000.
scales consumed
Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed. David Eagleman
seemed tries whereas work
Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours.
seemed time
I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.
seemed
Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right. David Carradine
seemed
Nothing ever seemed to ruffle him. He always had a smile. He was always cheerful.
seemed wish
I can't. I wish I could. Nothing seemed to be where I wanted it.
seemed
I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.
seemed wilson
I don't know what happened, ... Every thing seemed to be going well, but Wilson was just too fast.
seemed shot
God, it seemed like we had shot somebody. Leslie Moonves
seemed
He said he was getting a new job. Everything seemed to be going fantastic.
war ambition mean
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.
war winning games
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
war hands fog
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
war writing fighting
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
war long body
Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.
war heart character
Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?
war believe blow
I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.
war believe writing
There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?
war writing spy
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.