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“Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.”
Source : Ludwik Fleck (1981). “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact”, p.86, University of Chicago Press
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“Though woman needs the protection of one man against his whole sex, in pioneer life, in threading her way through a lonely forest, on the highway, or in the streets of the metropolis on a dark night, she sometimes needs, too, the protection of all men against this one.”
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“The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.”
Source : "Graves v. New York ex rel. O'Keefe, 306 U.S. 466". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 27, 1939.
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“When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.”
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“It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.”
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“I know something you don't....and that is.... I'M NOT WEARING ANY UNDERWEAR! We're gonna get sexy for a minute!”
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“If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.”
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“People routinely assume that ***** is such a difficult and divisive issue because it's about sex. In fact, this culture struggles unsuccessfully with ***** because it is about men's cruelty to women, and the pleasure men sometimes take in that cruelty. And that is much more difficult for people-- men and women-- to face.”