#pot

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #pot




The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena.


Robert Nozick


#arena #arenas #because #fact #falsity

How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.


Florenz Ziegfeld


#before #finally #girl #go #how

You know, I've taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time.


Bill Bennett


#i #know #philosophy #taught #time

I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.


Jack Scalia


#i #i remember #nuclear #nuclear war #potential

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.


Patrick Buchanan


#clean #culture #environmental #environmental protection #garbage

I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.


Laura Wilkinson


#hard #i #potential #really #see

Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don't remember any half-blood prince. "What's this?" Trying to sound casual, I point at the ad, "What's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?" "That's the latest book," Garth the other trainee, says. "It came out ages ago." I can't help gasping. "There's a sixth Harry Potter?" "There's a seventh out soon!" Diana steps forward eagerly. "And guess what happens at the end of book six-" "Shh!" exclaims Nicole, the other nurse. "Don't tell her!


Sophie Kinsella


#sophie-kinsella #age

If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.


Bertrand Russell


#christianity #russell #space #teapot #age

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.


William Robertson Smith


#been #force #forms #hypothesis #keep

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.


Leo Buscaglia


#compliment #kind-word #life #listen #potential