"Scientists often seek predictively accurate models, rather than models that are true."

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Elliott Sober

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“It always happens around beach resorts, a certain kind of money gravitates to the scene. The gold goes to the water. People love to wear it, show it off, roll with it. For me, I just find it disgusting.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com
“I'm not into being competitive. I never saw myself as a competitive type of person.”

Source : "Nonito Donaire Q & A". The Ring Interview, www.ringtv.com.
“Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of sexual to other motivations, impossible to label a decision or act â€˜sexualâ€™ or â€˜non-sexualâ€™ . There is no outstripping of sexuality any more than there is sexuality enclosed within itself. No one is saved and no one is totally lost.”
“It's not impressive to get in a fight, but if one does happen, you've gotta be ready to handle it. Every girl, not just biker chicks, knows what kind of guy can.”
“California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there”
“Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked.”

Source : John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.322, LSU Press
“No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.”

Source : Benjamin Robbins Curtis, George Ticknor Curtis (1879). “A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, LL. D.: Professional and miscellaneous writings”, Boston : Little, Brown,
“My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.”

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