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• Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

  Imre Lakatos

  Theory, Relation, Experiments

  Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

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• To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.

  Murray Bookchin

  Nature, Warrior, Breathing

  "Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1990.

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• [My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.

  Arthur Koestler

  Father, Distance, Pride

  Arthur Koestler (1952). “Arrow in the blue: an autobiography”

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• Being positive in a negative situation is not naive. It's leadership.

  Ralph Marston

  Inspirational, Being Positive, Negative

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• These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color, joy of rhythmic motion, naive, spontaneous laughter. Harmony, radiance, and simplicity, all the essentials of spiritual beauty in the race they had marked for destructions.

  Nella Larsen

  Spiritual, Laughter, Pride

  Nella Larsen (2013). “Quicksand & Passing”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Be honest: Are you surprised that I didn't realize sooner? Are you surprised that it took me so long to even /think/ the word -- death? Dying? Dead? Do you think I was being stupid? Naive? Try not to judge. Remember that we're the same, you and me. I thought I would live forever too.

  Lauren Oliver

  Stupid, Thinking, Judging

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.57, HarperCollins

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• When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.

  Paul Wesley

  Wave, Whatever Happens Happens, Willing

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• It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

  James Thurber

  Food, Wine, Thinking

  Cartoon caption, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 1937

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• Unfortunately, love and compassion have been omitted from too many spheres of social interaction for too long. Usually confined to family and home, their practice in public life is considered impractical, even naive. This is tragic.

  Dalai Lama

  Home, Compassion, Practice

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are all open in your heart, you are clean. If you are all open in your self, you are naive.

  John de Ruiter

  Heart, Self, Clean

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• Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of Justice are so poorly organized. On the other hand, the Evil is cynic, sly and fantastically organized. It never ever has the illusion of the ability to stand on its own feet and to win in a fair competition. That is why it is ready to use any kind of means without hesitation. And of course it does - under the banners of the most noble ideas.

  Vladimir Bukovsky

  Believe, Mean, Winning

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• I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.

  Kirstie Alley

  Agency, Waiting, Agents

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• He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.

  Colum McCann

  Heart, Care, Might

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• Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made her choice, and Anthony thought again how naive was her every gesture; she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Beautiful, Eye, Choices

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Beautiful And Damned”, p.55, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.

  David Sheff

  Problem, Loved Ones, Deny

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.

  Ogden Nash

  Family, Children, War

  1940 The Face Is Familiar,'Baby, What Makes the Sky Blue'.

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• There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.

  Carl Sagan

  Self, Dumb, Criticism

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• Roads are no place for naive chickens dreaming of nirvana.

  Shalom Auslander

  Dream, Chickens

  Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.93, Penguin

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• My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

  Anna Faris

  Character, Play, Doe

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• A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Food, Cheesy, Cooking

  Any Number Can Play (1957) p. 105

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• We Jews continue to be amazed with the ease by which Christian Americans have fallen into our hands. While the naive Americans wait for Khrushchev to bury them, we have taught them to submit to our every demand.

  Harold Wallace Rosenthal

  Christian, Hands, Waiting

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• The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of a control-based life, protected by walls of cynicism, judgment, and blame.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Wall, Shelter, Lovers

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.32, North Atlantic Books

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• Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.

  Willie Nelson

  Wise, Writing, Cynical

  Willie Nelson, Bud Shrake, Edwin Shrake (2000). “Willie: An Autobiography”, p.144, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a deficiency far more terrible than all the excesses and deviations for which wine is made responsible. Is it not reasonable to suggest that people that never drink wine, whether naive or doctrinaire, are fools or hypocrites....?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Believe, Wine, Hypocrite

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• It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, School, Race

  Edward Weston, Leslie Squyres Calmes, Willard Van Dyke (1992). “The letters between Edward Weston and Willard Van Dyke”, Center for Creative Photography

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