William Kingdon Clifford Quotes

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

William Kingdon Clifford

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Nations don't have friends; they have interests. The best motivation for a state to act if it is remote from an epidemic is if its own security is at risk.

Joanne Liu

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When I was young, I wasn't disciplined at all.

Jerry Lewis

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Future's like an older brother to me, and Thug's more like a brother my age.

Metro Boomin

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Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

Diablo Cody

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When I was a young mother at home with a two year old and a five year old, living on the Eastside in one of those neighborhoods where all the houses look the same, where all the cars look the same and the lawns look the same, I was writing in secret.

Deb Caletti

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I never intended to go into the family business. I've always been drawn to wanting to do something else at some time in my life.

Christie Hefner

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When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.

Conor Oberst

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Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.

Bryan Singer

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I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

Anthony Bourdain

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I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible.

William Gibson

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I like to be busy and I like to have places to go in the morning, when I get up.

Sean Hayes

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Well, I don't have anything to say to Mr. Sneddon, you know? Nothing at all.

Tito Jackson

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