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• Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Men, Philosopher

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Lewis E. Hahn (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1916-1917”, p.46, SIU Press

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• It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Doe, Goes On, Physics

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1904). “The Logic of Hegel”

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• I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that kind of stuff. It's like, there's not! There's not a method, there's not a science to it.

  Hunter Hayes

  Thinking, Answers, Stuff

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• My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

  Frederik Pohl

  Different, Fiction, Literature

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• If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

  Robert W. Floyd

  Design, Support, Matching

  "The Paradigms of Programming", 1978 Turing Award Lecture, Communications of the ACM 22 (8), August 1979: pp. 455 - 460,

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• I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.

  Jill Scott

  Actors, Singers, Wells

  VIBE interview, globalgrind.cassiuslife.com. April 7, 2010.

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• The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. [...] The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

  Nikola Tesla

  Race, Civilization, Parent

  "Machine to End War by Nikola Tesla as told to George Sylvester Viereck". "Liberty", www.pbs.org. February 1937.

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• In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Government, Law, Divine Right

  Leo Tolstoy, M. K. Gandhi (2016). “A LETTER TO A HINDU (A Fascinating View on Love and Non-Violence): Including Correspondences with Gandhi & Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby”, p.31, e-artnow

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• The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining the finite irrational numbers is wholly disimilar to, and I might even say in priciple the same as, my method described above of introducing trasfinite numbers. One can say unconditionally: the transfinite numbers stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers; they are like each other in their innermost being; for the former like the latter are definite delimited forms or modifications of the actual infinite.

  Georg Cantor

  Fall, Numbers, Finite Number

  "Understanding the Infinite". Book by Shaughan Lavine, 1994.

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• The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout the ages, that I could not choose a more appropriate subject for demonstrating how, with the method I am using, we can arrive at knowledge not possessed at all by those whose writings are available to us.

  Rene Descartes

  Writing, Discovery, Rainbow

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• Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Determined, Kind, Revolutionary

  "Lenin: Life and Legacy" by Dmitri Volkogonov, (p. 203), 1994.

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• The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Fiction, Certain, Existence

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• As Christians refine their methods, develop Church Growth eyes, feel church growth responsibility, communicate the Gospel, and educate those who are won until they become responsible Christians, the church as a whole will receive the abundant blessing God wants to give.

  Donald McGavran

  Christian, Eye, Responsibility

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• The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.

  William Godwin

  Teaching, Men, Thinking

  William Godwin, Luke White (bookseller.) (1793). “An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness”, p.375

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• I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the general character of a picture; when these are well established, then I try for subtleties of form and color. I rework the painting constantly and freely, and without any systematic method.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Art, Character, Color

  From Corot's 'Notebooks', 1850. "Artists on Art, from the 14 to 20 Centuries". Book by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, pp. 240-241, 1972.

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• A general flat minimum-wage law for all industry is permissible, but I do not think that it is a particularly wise method of achieving the end. I know much better methods of providing a minimum for everybody. But once you turn from laying down a general minimum for all industry to decreeing particular and different minimum for different industries, then, of course, you make the price mechanism inoperative, because it is no longer the price mechanism which will guide people between industries and trades.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Wise, Thinking, Law

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• There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible.

  Leland Ryken

  Literature, Growing, Revolution

  Leland Ryken (1984). “How to Read the Bible as Literature”, p.11, Zondervan

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• When you approach intuitive methods with respect, you become open to hearing from your interior channels.

  Caroline Myss

  Hearing, Approach, Interiors

  Twitter post from Jan 07, 2012

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• This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

  Eric Ries

  Important, Lessons, Scientific Method

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.56, Crown Business

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• The strategic stimulus to economic development in Schumpeter's analysis is innovation, defined as the commercial or industrial application of something new---a new product, process or method of production, a new market or source of supply, a new form of commercial, business or financial organization.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Organization, Innovation, Analysis

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2011). “The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle”, p.19, Transaction Publishers

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• Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Party, Believe, Government

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.

  A. E. Housman

  Thinking, Brain, Pudding

  "The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism". Lecture, August 04, 1921.

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• The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Steps, Socialism, Welfare

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• It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage and they must even change their name.

  Agnes Macphail

  Men, Names, Occupation

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• You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States and your name is Barack Hussein Obama! And he's using extreme methods, but his application is very smooth. Michelle Obama is extreme, her presence is extreme. And it's an extreme good. Extreme is not negative.

  Mos Def

  Believe, Names, President

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