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• Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scientific, Resembles, Theory, Image

• It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

  Thomas Robert Malthus

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  Tags in Acknowledged, Experiment, Theory, Philosophy

• You don’t attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It’s the same thing with psychotherapy.

  James Hillman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fault, Theory, Grunting, Psychotherapy, Grunt, Blame

• In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

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  Tags in Theory, Follow

• Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

  W. Edwards Deming

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  Tags in Theory, Action, Behavior

• When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  Tags in Scream, Theory, Sweeps, Expect

• I have just got a new theory of eternity.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Eternity, Theory, Got, Time

• Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

  Ty Cobb

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  Tags in Theory, Athlete, Pitcher, Celebrity

• The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

  H. L. Mencken

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• Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

  H. L. Mencken

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• My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

  Steven Wright

  Topics in Evolution, Funny, Humor

  Tags in Theory

• I’m a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare’s prose.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Tags in Theory, Puzzles

• My theory about Jack is that he’s not a very good parent.

  Victor Garber

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• Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

  William Pitt

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• I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

  Paul Farmer

  Tags in Theory, Catholicism

• Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

  Benito Mussolini

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Theory, Fallacy

• I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn’t have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

  Christian Bale

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Theory

• To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

  Albert Camus

  Tags in Theory