Top 16 Bas Van Fraassen Quotes

#1. You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.

Benedict Freedman

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#2. The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

Pete Seeger

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#3. In Missoula, Grizzly football exists in a realm apart, where there is a pervasive sense of entitlement. University of Montana fans, coaches, players, and their lawyers expect, and often receive, special dispensation.

Jon Krakauer

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#4. I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility. [An anarchist]

Joseph Conrad

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#5. Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.

Kevin McCarthy

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#6. He is someone I respect [Beckham] as a man and as a player. He is the captain of England and has been a European champion. I have never been critical of him and reports implying that are incorrect as I've never made comments about him

Jose Mourinho

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#7. Tod's customers - whatever their nationality - want the very best things in life.

Diego Della Valle

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#8. All she wanted was to matter. To be more than an opportunity. That's all.

Robyn Carr

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#9. We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.

Elizabeth Lesser

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#10. One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.

Majora Carter

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#11. Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?

Thomas Bangalter

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#12. I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

Natalie Zea

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#13. Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'

Maya Angelou

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#14. Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

Thomas Carlyle

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#15. Although it is not as famous as Kuhn's SSR, Bas van Fraassen's book The Scientific Image (1980) has certainly had a profound effect on the philosophy of science

Howard Margolis

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#16. One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.

Guy Finley

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