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I wonder what determinism really means. |
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| Arthur Eddington |
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. |
| Sergio Garcia |
Obviously, the good thing about golf, it's difficult to really, really blow it after five holes unless it goes really, really, really... really, really, really wrong. But you still have 13 to go, and if you have a good run, where you make five or six birdies, you can get it back somehow. |
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices. |
| Harry S Truman |
I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here. |
| Jonathan Swift |
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. |
| George W. Bush |
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. |
| Henny Youngman |
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means. |
| Mitt Romney |
And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare. |
| Vince Cable |
My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs. |
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Maybe that's just an appreciation of honesty in determinism. Which seems sort of pointless, but I don't think I can help it... ;)
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Voldemort's NAME, for heaven's sake. In French, "vol-" means "escape," "-de-" means "from" and "-mort" means "death." His entire name is a mashup of the phrase "escape from death." Alternatively, in Latin, "vol" means "wish", "de" means "of", and "mort" means "death". So in Latin, Voldemort is "death wisher" or "one who wishes death". Tie that in with the French translation meaning "escape from death", and J.K. Rowling is a genius on so many levels. "Vol" can also be thief, or theft, too; both stealing from death, and stealing death itself.
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Sometimes I think that determinism can exist to a degree, meaning every event is part the result of proceeding events and part stochastic. But if this is so, where does randomness come from?
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Daniel Dennett answers the question of the existence of free will by saying there are different kinds of free will and the one that becomes apparent from Laplacian determinism isn't worth wanting. This is entirely dissatisfying.
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It's interesting when someone says "I don't know about that one" because sometimes it means "I'm skeptical about that one" but other times it literally means "I'm not aware of that"
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Reed: "[Drop the ball] is a weird expression. Because it means that, but it also refers to New Years. And then if you pluralize it, it means something totally different."
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Another psychological approach to understanding people?s involvement with money was offered in
a financial magazine. This article (Sullivan, 1994) presented a classification of money personalities based
on a survey of 2,000 people?s ?inner financial life.? It divided people into seven personality
classifications as follows: 1) Hunters, who are characterized by an aggressive attitude toward the making
spending and investing of money and who tend to have unsettled personal lives and a higher than average
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eat all the nuggs. even if it means becoming chonky.
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Breakfast wine means water. Never forget.
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Shanti means "the peace that passes all understanding"
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