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“As I grew up I became increasingly interested in philosophy, or which [his family] profoundly disapproved. Everytime the subject came up they repeated with unfailing regularity, "What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind." After some fifty or sixty repititions, this remark ceased to amuse me.”

Mind Matter Philosophy Subjects Grew Grew Up No Matter What Fifty Sixty Remarks Regularity

Author:Bertrand Russell

“We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there are inexorable limits set upon his desires. Language must conform to the discovered regularities and irregularities of experience.”

Knows Children Enough Desire Universe Language Fire Cutting Limits Edges Knives Conform Regularity Inexorable Capricious Soon Enough Irregularity

Author:Max Black

“To know whether you can trust a particular intuitive judgment, there are two questions you should ask: Is the environment in which the judgment is made sufficiently regular to enable predictions from the available evidence? The answer is yes for diagnosticians, no for stock pickers. Do the professionals have an adequate opportunity to learn the cues and the regularities? The answer here depends on the professionals' experience and on the quality and speed with which they discover their mistakes.”

“I really prefer acting in the theater the most. In some ways TV is closer to that because there's more of a regularity to the schedule. You have to finish an episode by a certain day. Movies can just go on interminably.”

Way Certain Acting Tvs Goes On Theater Episodes Schedules Regularity

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“Things that have never happened before are bound to occur with some regularity. You must always be prepared for the unexpected, including sudden, sharp downward swings in markets and the economy. Whatever adverse scenario you can contemplate, reality can be far worse.”

Reality Economy Happened Prepared Bounds Including Unexpected Swings Contemplating Be Prepared Scenarios Adverse Regularity

Author:Seth Klarman

“More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.”

Courses Adventure Train These Days Fascinating Regularity Sociable Irregularity

Book:Wars I have seen

Source: Wars I have seen

“And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade.”

Doe Facts Earth Turns Culture Space Levels Feet Opposites Raises Unions Strive Clarity Sensitive Paradox Intensity Sanity Mud Closure Eco Regularity Fuse Hallucinogens

Author:Terence McKenna

“Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.”

“The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.”

Firsts Law Universe Stars Planets Scales Gravity Splits Impressed Science And Religion Newton Regularity Isaac

Author:Seth Shostak

“What's better these days, television or film? It's a dead heat. In fact, one could argue for television with more regularity.”

Facts Film Television Arguing These Days Heat Regularity

Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol

“Sometimes it's difficult because you like some regularity in your life, but never knowing who's gonna pop up at what show, what person you might see that you don't expect to see in that city, what problem you're gonna have that night, even the problems at some of these venues, if you look at them the right way, it's an adventure. You're like a cowboy. That's the best part about being in the music industry. You get your gun and you ride your horse.”

Ifs Way Looks Persons Sometimes Shows Problem Might Night Difficult Cities Knowing Adventure Industry Gun Horse Pops Right Way Cowboy Music Industry Venues Regularity

Author:Colin Munroe

“An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.”

Men Gun Monotonous Regularity Unarmed

Author:Clint Smith

“Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-divided rhythmically.”

Certain Rhythm Divided Meter Spoken Word Regularity Commonality Words And Music

Author:Jeff Britting

“Rituals are important. I get up. I take the dogs on a walk around to the front and then I pick up the papers. Then I walk around to the front door, then me and the two dogs come in the house and I give them treats. I make coffee. It's the regularity of these kinds of rituals that I find deeply satisfying.”

Giving Kind Two Important House Walks Doors Dog Fronts Paper Picks Treats Coffee Get Up Ritual Satisfying Papers Front Doors Regularity Two Dogs

Author:Jane Fonda

“In terms of writing, I think something happens to you, and you think, "Oh I'm going to write about that. That's an emotional event." But obviously, if you keep going, and it's something you do with regularity, you've got to find other ways to write.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Happens Term Events Emotional Things Happen Keep Going Regularity

Author:David Gray

“As for the eastern part of the former Soviet Union, the picture is rather uniform. Authoritarian structures prevail to differing extents. But we can still determine certain regularities, and the role of Russia is not to be underestimated. It is clear that we would have the same situation in Tajikistan and, let's say, Uzbekistan without the direct influence of Russia.”

Stills Certain Situation Roles Clear Influence Direct Structure Unions Determine Russia Former Soviet Uniforms Soviet Union Eastern Underestimated Regularity Uzbekistan

Author:Garry Kasparov

“The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.”

Ifs Humans Doe Art Seems Artist Values Offers Lust Human Life Works Of Art Interiors Fragments Crystals Facets Exterior Rigidity Regularity Hardness Luster

Author:Pope Paul VI

“I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.”

Persons Habit Prize Receiving Nobel Nobel Prize Regularity Gmos

Author:Jose Saramago

“Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen.”

Years Kind Made Happens Regard Errors Port Regularity Another Year

Book:Collected stories, 1939-1976

Source: Collected stories, 1939-1976

“I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters and calculators; I was groping for faith, honor, and prescriptive loyalties. I would have given any number of neo-classical pediments for one poor battered gargoyle.”

Given Perfect Poor Numbers Mystery Cold Honor Tradition Organization Harmony Loyalty Awful Variety Despised Regularity Battered Gargoyles Calculators

Book:The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays

Source: The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays

“Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive.”

Whole Creative Modern Discipline Casts Artistic Impulse Generous Iron Routine Respectability Regularity

Book:Sceptical Essays

Source: Sceptical Essays

“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”

Source: Little Women (Illustrated Edition)

“Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards upon nature, and who in this way introduce morals into the natural world, in spite the fact that we are part of this world. We are products of nature, but nature has made us together with our power of altering the world, of foreseeing and of planning for the future, and of making far-reaching decisions for which we are morally responsible. Yet, responsibility, decisions, enter the world of nature only with us”

“The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.”

Ifs Facts Able Essence Relax Dictatorship Regularity Unpredictability Caprice

Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir

Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir

“Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.”

Men Body Realizing Habit Bones Stores Rhythm Regularity

Book:The Round House: A Novel

Source: The Round House: A Novel

“I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.”

Ends Time Wish Enemy Painting Genius Oil End Times Wish You Regularity Vinegar Punctuality I Wish You Would Oil And Vinegar

Author:Thomas Gainsborough

“I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.”

Long Time All Things Divided Regularity

Book:Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire

Source: Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire

“I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so maybe it is true, but what kind of marriage will those perfect marriages be? There will be no tension, there will be no individuality in the man or in the woman. They will never collide, they will never fight. They will be too sweet to each other. And too much sweetness brings diabetes! Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.”

“Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.”

Men Needs Marriage Teach Virtue Institutions Splendid Temperance Frugality Regularity Forbearance

Author:Rajneesh

“~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~”

Ifs Thinking Trying Two Different Able Mother Week Parenting What If Call Me Two Weeks Mothering Regularity Vantage Point

Author:Julia Roberts

“Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which we call [physical] law. ... No one attributes freewill or motive to the material world. Is the conduct of man or the other animals any more subject to whim or choice than the action of the planets? ... We know that man's every act is induced by motives that led or urged him here or there; that the sequence of cause and effect runs through the whole universe, and is nowhere more compelling than with man.”

“My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game. I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. How can it be that writing down a few simple and elegant formulae, like short poems governed by strict rules such as those of the sonnet or the waka, can predict universal regularities of Nature?”

“Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.”

Hours Simple Exercise All Things Dresses Climate Perseverance Health Care Rising Branches Retiring Fitness Adaptation Variation Temperance Regularity

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.”

Littles Three Four Feet Degrees Balls Golf Uncertain Regularity

Author:Walter Hagen

“Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And our guesses are guided by the unscientific, the metaphysical (though biologically explicable) faith in laws, in regularities which we can uncover-discover. Like Bacon, we might describe our own contemporary science-'the method of reasoning which men now ordinarily apply to nature'-as consisting of 'anticipations, rash and premature' and as 'prejudices'.”

Men States Might Law Science Certain Nature Accounts Prejudice Method Statements Contemporary Reasoning Biology Anticipation Metaphysical In-laws Premature Regularity Finality

Author:Karl Popper

“The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow from it ; and by observing how these differ from the real phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our assumption.”

Firsts Real Science Process Consequence Sight Appearance Complicated Observation Confused Assumption Observing Corrections Regularity Supposition Tracing

Book:A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Being a Connected View of the Principles, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation

Source: A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Being a Connected View of the Principles, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation

“But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.”

Should Science Process Principles Intellectual Discovery Machines Accounts Following Intellect Astronomy Exploration Astrology Regularity Kepler

Author:Marvin Minsky

“The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with which events prove that we are of too limited vision. And it always seems to be those who have the fullest opportunity to know who are the most limited in view. What, then, is the trouble? I think that one answer should be: we do not realize sufficiently that the unknown is absolutely infinite, and that new knowledge is always being produced.”

“Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.”

Law Science Order Left Nature Produce Universal Chaos Regularity Universal Laws

Book:Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770

Source: Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770

“The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exist as an independent cause of natural events.”

Men Humans Different Religion Left Causes Sides Natural Rooms Atheism Events Divine Independent Conviction Regularity Divine Will

Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and regularity of former times, and celebrates the discipline and sobriety of the age in which his youth was passed; a happy age which is now no more to be expected, since confusion has broken in upon the world, and thrown down all the boundaries of civility and reverence.”

“Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple molecule of air or vapour is regulated in a manner as certain as that of the planetary orbits; the only difference between them is that which is contributed by our ignorance. Probability is relative in part to this ignorance, and in part to our knowledge.”

Source: Pierre-Simon Laplace Philosophical Essay on Probabilities: Translated from the fifth French edition of 1825 With Notes by the Translator

“Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain to communicate by constructing it on a small [scale], no matter how carefully. Already the regularity of its motion promises the most conclusive results. One collects numbers that, compared with the predictions of theory, permit one to appreciate how far the true pendulum approximates or differs from the abstract system called 'the simple pendulum'.”

Trying Matter Science Simple Results Numbers Quality Theory Huge Promise Gains Appreciate Communicate Scales Experiments Vain Abstract Dimensions Permit Predictions Regularity Pendulums

Author:Leon Foucault

“There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of us. In a moment of clarity, one can at most discover that they are there and take them into account. Long before there were people on the earth, crystals were already growing in the earth's crust. On one day or another, a human being first came across such a sparkling morsel of regularity lying on the ground or hit one with his stone tool and it broke off and fell at his feet, and he picked it up and regarded it in his open hand, and he was amazed.”

“What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of patterns appropriate to their own lives through which they can see variety, regularity, and interconnections.”

Humans Children Language Grows Rich Teaching Mathematics Patterns Math Variety Appropriate Exposed Regularity Interconnection

Author:Lynn Steen

“[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family.”

Wells Government Family Economy Industry Essentials Importance Well Being Prudence Piety Frugality Regularity

Author:Samuel Adams

“But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained, as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is [to be] avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.”

“The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.”

Doe Hands Inspiration Action Jobs Waiting Work Figures Waste Inspired Settling Each Day Wasting Time Composer Accountants Settling Down Regularity Wagner

Author:Ernest Newman

“I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.”

Stills Given Failing One Thing Grateful Regularity

Author:John Malkovich

“The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.”

Ifs May God Earth Stage Dying Green Regularity Green Earth Center Stage

Book:Balancing acts: essays

Source: Balancing acts: essays

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