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Karl Popper Quotes

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: austrian
Birth: July 28, 1902 - September 17, 1994

Topics

Attitude Man Argument Want Will Who

Get practiced at taking deep breaths before you speak. This will give you the space to stop, notice what was about to come out of your mouth, and course correct if needed.

Space Speak Deep You Mouth Stop

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Me Boy Modest Made Oxford

Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each other while their disgusted seconds take up the quarrel, is nonstop funny.

Robert Gottlieb

Funny Red End Soldiers Up Charm

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

Mother Live Myself Best Expectations

I've spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the very best security and I can assure you my homes are as safe as the Bank of England.

Best You Security I Can Bank Safe

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.

World Humanity Differences Moral

The secret to fundraising comes down to three magic words: before, more, and strategic.

Words Magic Down Three More Secret

When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs.

Start Remember Will Hiroshima Active

Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Work Father Work Ethic Doing Worth

I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.

Good Think Immigration Way Difficult

I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall, and the next time I'm building a palace.

Time Building Wall Sometimes Actor

Sometimes who is going to be taking care of all of my kids on any given day is more complicated than any trade agreement.

Chrystia Freeland

Day Care Complicated Sometimes More

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