Ian Hacking Quotes

It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.

Ian Hacking

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I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.

John C. McGinley

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Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.

Robert Kennedy

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If someone offered me a free trip to the International Space Station, I would decline. I like Earth. I like the internet. I like Diet Coke. I have cats. I write about brave people - I'm not one of them.

Andy Weir

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A lot of entrepreneurship is seeing the future in a way that no one else sees it. Then, it becomes about execution and doing what it takes to succeed.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

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We can no longer take our own way of life for granted - we know that it may be challenged. And we know this, too - and know it ever more deeply - we know that freedom and democracy are not just big words mouthed by orators but the rain and the wind and the sun, the air and the light by which we breathe and live.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

Michael Schumacher

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Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.

Judge Mills Lane

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I had to fight, a lot of years, to be really proud of the person I see in the mirror and really love this person.

Jonathan Van Ness

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I wanted Season 2 of Luke Cage to be Ice Cube's 'Death Certificate,' or Fugees' 'The Score,' or Public Enemy's 'It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back,' or my favorite, 'The Low End Theory' by A Tribe Called Quest.

Cheo Hodari Coker

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Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

Christopher Bond

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The soul has no gender.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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Surprise is important. I think that's the essence of entertainment, really.

Brad Paisley

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