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Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them.


Norman Lamm


#aristotle #authority #bother #conventional #correct

I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.


Christian Louboutin


#i #i love #invented #inventing #love

2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series!


Thomas Menino


#bowl #convention #first #great #hosted

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.


Ethel Merman


#appropriate #discipline #inventions #player #such

Architecture is invention.


Oscar Niemeyer


#invention

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.


Ron Paul


#american #american tradition #another #because #might

There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really well here, but I think 'Torchwood' is a bit different. It's more of a hybrid that doesn't exist as a reinvention.


Bill Pullman


#bit #british #definitely #different #exist

Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.


Duane Michals


#art #invention #nothing #photography #surfaces

[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.


Bill Bryson


#invention #progress #home

Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.


John Yoo


#al #applying #contemplated #conventions #different






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