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• By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You’ve just got to keep moving. You can’t stop.

  Brad Pitt

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• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

  Friedrich Engels

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• The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

  Frederick Pollock

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• Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

  Paul Samuelson

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• I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

  Billy Joel

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• My theory is this; I’m not a political songwriter. I’m an honest songwriter.

  Billy Bragg

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• Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

  Gerrit Smith

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• I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

  Barbara Corcoran

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• In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

  Talcott Parsons

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• Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.

  Talcott Parsons

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• Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

  George Stigler

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• In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

  Tom Seaver

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• Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

  George Santayana

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• If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

  Stephen Hawking

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• After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.

  Simon Van Der Meer

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• It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

  Sidney Blumenthal

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• Beck said he didn’t believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.

  Sheryl Crow

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• The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

  Gary Lawrence Francione

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• This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.

  Garet Garrett

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• My theory is that comedy comes from little people.

  Scott Thompson

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