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Lawyer
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First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
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A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person licensed to practice law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to...
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French
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Human Language
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...the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.
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French (français, ) is today spoken around the world by 65 to 130 million people as a native language, and by about 190 to 600 million people as a second or third language, with significant speakers in 54 countries. Most native speakers of the...
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Insanity
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Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
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Traditionally, insanity or madness is the behaviour whereby a person flouts societal norms and may become a danger to himself and others. Greek tragedies and Shakespeare often refer to madness in this sense. Psychologically, it is a general, popular...
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in it
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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.
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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.
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Social psychiatry
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An individual's reality model can be right or wrong, complete or incomplete. As a rule it will be both incomplete and wrong...
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Social psychiatry is a branch of psychiatry that focuses on the interpersonal and cultural context of mental disorder and mental wellbeing. It involves a sometimes disparate set of theories and approaches, with work stretching from epidemiological...
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Model
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An individual's reality model can be right or wrong, complete or incomplete. As a rule it will be both incomplete and wrong...
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A formal interpretation or model is the assignment of meaning to the symbol and truth-values to the sentence of a formal language. The study of formal interpretations is called formal semantics. Rudolf Carnap, in his Introduction to Semantics makes...
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Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.
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Automobile
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Industry
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The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.
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An automobile or motor car is a wheel motor vehicle for transporting passenger, which also carries its own engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to...
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The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.
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TV Genre
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A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.
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Youth
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Youth is defined by Webster's New World Dictionary as, "The time of life when one is young; especially: a: the period between childhood and maturity b: the early period of existence, growth, or development."
Around the world the terms "youth", ...
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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. -- Lamentations 3:27
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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
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Knowledge
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Knowledge is defined (Oxford English Dictionary) variously as (i) expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, (ii) what is known in a particular field or in...
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The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.
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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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No man knows less than the man who knows it all
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Ethics
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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe...
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Ethics is a major branch of philosophy, encompassing right conduct and good life. It is significantly broader than the common conception of analyzing right and wrong. A central aspect of ethics is "the good life", the life worth living or life that...
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The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
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Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition of rebirth.
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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
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Philosophical Subject
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Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?
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Nature
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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe...
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Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical universe, material world or material universe. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. Manufactured objects and human...
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The unnatural, that too is natural.
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The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
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Literary Genre
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I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
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Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
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Bioethics
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If we don't play God, who will?
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Bioethics is the philosophical study of the ethical controversies brought about by advances in biology and medicine. Bioethicists are concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine,...
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Science fiction
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I'll Be Back
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Science fiction film is a film genre that uses speculative, science-based depictions of imaginary phenomena such as extra-terrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, and time travel, often along with technological elements such as futuristic spacecraft,...
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Apparently I’ve been typecast in science fiction: I’m a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew.
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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
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Film
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I'll Be Back
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Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with camera, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effect.
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Hello, I Must Be Going
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People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything.
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I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it -- yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Movies
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I'll Be Back
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The Movies was an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies.
This episode is also known as "The British Film Industry".
The Goodies won the Silver Rose in 1975 for this episode at the Festival Rose d'Or, held in Montreux,...
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Science
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding of how the physical world works. Through controlled methods, science uses observable physical evidence of natural phenomena to collect...
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A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.
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Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends.
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Wisdom
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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Wisdom is having gained knowledge, understanding, experience, discretion, and intuitive understanding, along with a capacity to apply these qualities well. It is the judicious application of knowledge. To some extent the terms wisdom and...
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
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Theory
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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The word theory has many distinct meanings in different fields of knowledge, depending on their methodologies and the context of discussion.
In science a theory is a testable model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena,...
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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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It is theory that decides what can be observed.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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Experience
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience as a general concept comprises knowledge of or skill in or observation of some thing or some event gained through involvement in or exposure to that thing or event. The history of the word experience aligns it closely with the concept of...
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Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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Experience is largely non-transferable.
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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Action
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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In philosophy, action has developed into a sub-field called philosophy of action. Action is what an agent can do.
For example, throwing a ball is an instance of action; it involves an intention, a goal, and a bodily movement guided by the agent....
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
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Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
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Artificial intelligence
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No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is both the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it.
Major AI textbooks define artificial intelligence as "the study and design of intelligent agents,"where an intelligent...
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More human than human
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Traffic engineering
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Profession
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The trouble with traffic engineers is that when there’s a problem with a road, they always try to add something. To my mind, it’s much better to remove things.
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Traffic engineering is a branch of civil engineering that uses engineering techniques to achieve the safe and efficient movement of people and goods. It focuses mainly on research and construction of the immobile infrastructure necessary for this...
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Software Testing
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Profession
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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it
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Software testing is the process of checking software, to verify that it satisfies itsrequirements and to detect errors.
Software testing is an empirical investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the...
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Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
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Testing is an empirical investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the software under test.
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Testing is questioning a product in order to evaluate it.
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Quality is value to some person.
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War
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There is no calam |
