I remember the above phrase (or something like it) from one of my philosophy classes, but I can't remember what exactly it is in reference to.  Any short explaination or link would be most helpful...
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Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is about elementary particles changed by whatever detection method you use. It is physics, and as far from philosophy as it can get.\n\nI bet the original quote is about changing your perception of the thing by taking the measurement. Like you see a prize boar and think - wow, it must weight a ton; then you put it on scales and - meh, just half a ton.
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taken out of context, the quote's meaning is hard to dtermine with certainty.  my take is that without knowledge, people cannot "stand up" for their rights or values.\n\nin relation to bush, i guess you could say that since he has cut education spending so much, he will create a population of "empty bags" who will be easy to manipulate
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You are upsetting me.  I have searched all of Orwell's works with that quote and no source is turning up, just that it is a quote attributed to Orwell.  I have read 1984 several times, and this quote is ringing all kinds of bells.  It has to be from that book.  I will keep looking for it.  It is personal now.\n\nGot it...\n"The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell" Volume 4, page 51
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niiiiiiiiiiiiice quote.  I like it a lot.  I'll have to get that book.\n\nBasically, it says that if you are the type of person to let things roll over and over and over in your head without ever coming to some sort of resolution, you will always get behind in everything you really want to do in life.\n\nIn terms of respect, there are a couple of thoughts on this.  How will you respect yourself if you don't respect others?  How will you be perceived as an honorable person if you let others run over you or you straddle the fence on important issues all the time?  \n\nI disagree with one statement.  "You have to demand respect in this world,......"  Actually, I don't demand respect.  I don't have to because I can look at you or speak to you in such a way that the respect comes natural.  \n\nI command respect by my mere presence.
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That phrase is usually translated as --\n\n"God created the integers, all else is the work of man."\n\nIt's a commentary on the relation between mathematics and the real world.
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I can't remember where the quote is from, but I agree with it entirely.  It means "no holds barred", in a way, and I find it true in love and war.  It's sad to say that's true in love, but, experience tells me it is true, and our culture supports it entirely.  Our international bodies try to make it untrue in war, such as in the Geneva Convention, but, war is hell everything's "fair" in hell, so . . ..  God Bless you.
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This link should help.\nhttp://arthursclassicnovels.com/arthurs/philosophy.html
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This phrase could mean anything and it could be used in anything.\n\nIt doesn't necessarily have anything to do with being morally bankrupt.\n\nMy Mom used it frequently when teaching us about responsibility.
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I have no idea of the context, but this is the translation:\n"you, la Bruyère and Tori cannot judge me. Leave the table of multification to God"\nThat last part does not make sense to me. May be the "table of multification" is a french expression for something like "final judgement". \nGreetings from Holland!
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This is the first time I've ever heard the quote so the best I can do is to tell you what I think it means.  \n\nI think it means that you can't make people love you.  (You can't dominate them or force them to love you).  All you can do is give them the choice (the freedom) to love.  The word "child" seems to mean "outcome" in this case.
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I put it on the same level of, "stop and smell the roses".\n\nIt means, to me, slow down and enjoy what is around you.  You only get to pass this way once, don't miss it all.  Live is a journey, not a destination.\n\nOK that should give you some idea of my thoughts.  Good luck with your propaganda mill.
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It's telling someone that they are your savior for doing them a favor. The line was also used the first Matrix Movie. The response is usually reserved for a very large favor.
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What is this referring to? Can you post a clarification?
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Better version of the quote...\n\n"When President John F. Kennedy was asked during his run for Presidency if he would accept his party's nomination for Vice President, he responded, "Why should I accept second place when first is available? Once you accept second best, you have a tendency to do so the rest of your life." First place is available to you, seize it."\n\nLike many other quotes it gets changed a bit by the quoter?
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It's a Chinese proverb you're thinking of. You've almost got it right. The correct version is:\n\n"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
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I love Dazed and Confused... i went to find that whole conversation:\n\nCynthia: God, don't you ever feel like everything we do and everything we've been taught is just to service the future? \nTony: Yeah I know, like it's all preparation. \nCynthia: Right. But what are we preparing ourselves for? \nMike: Death. \nTony: Life of the party. \nMike: It's true. \nCynthia: You know, but that's valid because if we are all gonna die anyway shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now? You know, I'd like to quit thinking of the present, like right now, as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.
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"Humans represent just one tiny, largely fortuitous, and late-arising twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life."\n\nI assume it is the phrase "largely fortuitous" that Wells objects to. Arguably, this opinion is more philosophical than scientific (though it's also arguable that it isn't). Still, one phrase in one quote in an interview that is peripheral to the main text hardly seems worth getting overexcited about. It doesn't mean that the treatment of evolution, or of human evolution, in that textbook is not accurate.