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• The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty when confronted with the results of historical research. We find, then, that there is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or another.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Ideas, Historical

  Paul Feyerabend (1975). “Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge”, Verso

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• Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Phones, Data, Soon Enough

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• After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: "Dear Sir, I wish to inform you that the man who played the long thing you pull in and out only did so during the brief periods you were looking at him."

  Arturo Toscanini

  Music, Men, Long

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• Universality of the UN is a worthwhile thing in its own self because it means that every country belongs, feels it has a stake, and participates, rather than going away and finding other methods of conducting international relations.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Country, Mean, Worthwhile Things

  "Shashi Tharoor on 'Have Your Say'". "Have Your Say" with Bridget Kendall, shashitharoor.in. September 24, 2006.

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• On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him away. As he left, he said to another prisoner, This is the end - but for me, the beginning - of life. He was hanged the next day, less than a week before the Allies reached the camp.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Life, Sunday, Two

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• Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and transparency and openness to others becomes essential to the new way of conducting business, empathic sensibility has room to breathe and thrive. It is no longer so constrained by hierarchies, boundaries of exclusion, and a concept of human nature that places acquisitiveness, self-interest, and utility at the center of the human experience."

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Self, Competition, Hierarchy

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• You can't expect someone born into a family with no music...to understand when I'm conducting the Schönberg Variations.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Variation, Born, Schoenberg

  "'Europe has to take the initiative now'". Interview with Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2004.

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• and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Herds, Forty

  Charles Dickens (2004). “A Christmas Carol (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.27, Sparklesoup LLC

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• ..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.

  Susanna Clarke

  Mad, Gone, Argument

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• You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.

  Rene Daumal

  Art, Memories, Learning

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• The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.

  Stephen Fry

  Morning, Fall, Symphony

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• I think that children that are acting are always pretty savvy anyway because you're conducting yourself around adults a lot of the time, aren't you? But there is this worry now that children just want to be famous.

  Ashley Jensen

  Children, Thinking, Worry

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• With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.

  Gus Van Sant

  Blow, Hunting, Laughing

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 5, 2003.

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• In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  Real, Years, Imagination

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• When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

  Julie Burchill

  Looks, Ottomans, Inmates

  "Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2012.

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• For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  Children, Eight, Tchaikovsky

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• The first principle, when you don't know anything about the subject of a thesis, is to let the candidate talk, nodding now and then with an ambiguous smile. He thinks you know, and are counting his mistakes, and it unnerves him... the second principle of conducting an oral, ... is to pretend ignorance, and ask for explanations of very simple points. Of course your ignorance is real, but the examinee thinks you are being subtle, and that he is making an ass of himself, and this rattles him.

  Robertson Davies

  Mistake, Real, Ignorance

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• I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry.

  William Carlos Williams

  Way, Fool, Damn

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher John MacGowan (1986). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939”, p.483, New Directions Publishing

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• I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Teaching, Three, Helping

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Levels

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• I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

  Edwin Land

  Play, Mind, Orchestra

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• We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.

  Paul Keating

  Jobs, Hypocrite, Duplicity

  Campaign Launch Speech in Melbourne, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. February 14, 1996.

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• That Iran is willing to threaten Israel is wrong[. . . .] We pose no threat and if we are conducting nuclear research and development we are no threat to Israel. We have no intention of aggression against any country. [. . .] Today we announce to you that the political will of Iran is aimed at the negotiated settlement of the case and we dont want to aggravate the situation in our region[. . . .] We know that this issue can be settled in a constructive dialogue and we welcome that.

  Ali Larijani

  Country, Israel, Iran

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• Technology will make available to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised.....techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Technology, Weather, Leader

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• If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Home, Men, Becoming

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.139, Rajpal & Sons

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