"[T]he degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system ... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism are properties that theories have in virtue of their relation to the whole structure of scientific beliefs taken collectively. A measure of conservatism or simplicity would be a metric over global properties of belief systems."

-- Jerry Fodor

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“I liked the Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest and Cypress Hill.”
“There is this unbounded, infinite, eternal, level, ocean, within every human being. Inner happiness comes with consciousness, bliss, intelligence comes with it. Creativity, love. Human beings have a potential and it has names like enlightenment or fulfilment, or liberation. True happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. They say beauty is only skin deep but it's this stuff coming from the inside, absolute vibrant consciousness, absolute bliss”
“Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together â€” man, you got it.”
“My parents are amazing, but when I was like, 'Well, I'm going to be an actress,' and they're all doctors, that wasn't the best and easiest thing to do. I'm sure that I probably went through a year period when I wasn't telling them exactly what I was doing. But that's going to evolve.”

Source : "RESHMA SHETTY from Royal Pains Interview". Interview with Sandrine Sahakians, www.tvequals.com. June 8, 2009.
“By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.”
“I give you Mercedes Athena Thompson, our newest member." Much awkwardness ensued.”
“Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.”
“Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.”

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