![[I]n the past two decades anthropologists have gathered data on life and death in pre-state societies rather than accepting the warm and fuzzy stereotypes. What did they find? In a nutshell: Hobbes was right, Rousseau was wrong.](/assets/img/quote-photos/in-the-past-two-decades-anthropologists-have-gathered-data-on-life-and-death-in.jpg)
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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock. Ivern Ball
past kind given
When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience. Bertrand Russell
past pick reports threat
We could go back over the past two years and pick out threat reports of pretty much the same substance, Tom Ridge
past may fairness
Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past. William Shakespeare
past fishing advice
Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.
past remembrance nostalgia
Remembrance of things past.
past
We'll get past this. But it's just the beginning. Avery Johnson
past years people
The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth. Alex Jones
past plans specific
What we've said in the past is that we look at this as an investment. We didn't have any specific plans for making a bid, but there was just a lot of speculation out there.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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The pending home sales data feed right into the hands of those who expect the Fed to end its interest-rate hikes.
data ideas waiting
[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea. I'm very fond of it. It's done you no harm. Please don't attack it." That's not the way it goes. The hard but just rule is that if the ideas don't work, you must throw them away. Don't waste any neurons on what doesn't work. Devote those neurons to new ideas that better explain the data. Valid criticism is doing you a favor. Carl Sagan
data easy insufficient
With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.
data body celestial-bodies
Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies. Antoine Lavoisier
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We've got some pretty heavy data this week and I know people are holding off a little bit.
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We've made it hard for ourselves because we didn't perform as well as we should have. Our engineers are digesting data now and will be discussing options well into the night I would think.
data event recorder
We have to look at the event data recorder in more detail. Mark Rosenker
data exception released surprised today
With the exception of the backward-looking Q4 GDP report, the data released today surprised to the downside. David Rosenberg
two way poet
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. C. S. Lewis
two commandments knows
I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.
two differences looks
When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two. Cecelia Ahern
two tides sometimes
I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out. Carrie Fisher
two swings guy
There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.
two feelings mind
Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and body, feelings and intellect, would be obliterated. Carl Rogers
two enemy stronger
Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline.
two government firsts
First rule in government spending: Why build one, when you can have two at twice the price?
two age leisure
A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work. Bill Bryson