#acts

Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#concept #criterion #empirical #facts #growth

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#congress #contracts #donors #members #must

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#blanks #children #education #enormous #facts

Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#civilization #community #development #economic #facts

I hate to think life is just facts and laws. ↗

— Ang Lee

#hate #i #just #laws #life

Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#fact #facts #get #ideology #innovative

Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive. ↗

— Eliphas Levi

#attracts #awkward #because #disorder #intrusive

Tim Tebow is one of my biggest inspirations. I actually want to be able to do some of the things that he does in terms of the amount of charity work and the non-profit work, and the way he impacts people off the field. I think that is what is most inspiring to me about him. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#about #actually #amount #biggest #charity

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#creative #ego #expands #faculties #increases

So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#because #business #cannot #communicators #corporate