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• Much of economics isn't difficult, or rather, the difficulty is in cooking up arguments to "prove" that commonsense conclusions are wrong. The fact is that many commonsense conclusions are quite correct, and it takes a lot of education to get you to believe different.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Believe, Cooking, Different

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• To be rationally minded, the mental process of the intuitive appears to work backward. His conclusions are reached before his premises. This is not because the steps which connect the two have been omitted, but because those steps are taken by the unconscious.

  Frances G. Wickes

  Taken, Two, Steps

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• It is this claim to a monopoly of meaning, rather than any special scientific doctrine, that makes science and religion look like competitors today. Scientism emerged not as the conclusion of scientific argument but as a chosen element in a worldview - a vision that attracted people by its contrast with what went before - which is, of course, how people very often do make such decisions, even ones that they afterwards call scientific.

  Mary Midgley

  People, Decision, Vision

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• What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.

  Warren Buffett

  Information, Humans, Interpreting

  "How the web distorts reality and impairs our judgement skills" by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2014.

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• I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad ... he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.

  Boris Johnson

  Reality, Mad, Needs

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• Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Ignorance, Two, Scripture

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• So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not your friend. It's not my friend. It's a very uncomfortable set of accommodations that have been hammered out over time for the convenience of institutions.

  Terence McKenna

  Civilization, Culture, Individual

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• Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.

  Guy Finley

  Unseen, About Yourself, Limitation

  Guy Finley (1994). “Freedom From the Ties That Bind: The Secret of Self Liberation”, p.45, BookBaby

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• What (Stephen) Hawking says in his book The Grand Design is the universe exists because it needed to exist, and because it needed to exist, it therefore created itself. His conclusion merely restates his premise, which means his argument is circular. Nonsense is nonsense, even when spoken by famous scientists.

  John Lennox

  Book, Mean, Design

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• I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years of close study of the subject gradually dispelled that feeling. In the end I became convinced that the abolitionists were right in their conclusions...and that far from the sentimental approach leading into their camp and the rational one into that of the supporters, it was the other way about.

  Ernest Gowers

  Heart, Years, People

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• After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Years, Television, Aliens

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.242, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Thinking, Jumping, Lessons

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• Rigor is always appropriate when investing in markets, whatever the ultimate conclusions may be.

  Robert Rubin

  Investing, May, Rigor

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• Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By pushing a precise but inadequate formulation to an unacceptable conclusion, we can often expose the exact source of this inadequacy and, consequently, gain a deep understanding of the linguistic data. More positively, a formalized theory may automatically provide solutions for many problems other than those for which it was explicitly designed.

  Noam Chomsky

  Discovery, Data, Deep Understanding

  Noam Chomsky (2002). “Syntactic Structures”, p.5, Walter de Gruyter

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• Rocky is a very predictable movie. The ending is a foregone conclusion.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Predictable

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• I want to feel that my characters evolved into a place that they deserved, that was sometimes unexpected, but where I would feel satiated that logically they have come to a conclusion that makes me feel satisfied.

  J.H. Wyman

  Character, Want, Unexpected

  Source: collider.com

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• Fortunately, at the end of every season, we close the chapter and start anew. That's the language of the series now, so it can organically come to a conclusion that we love.

  J.H. Wyman

  Language, Ends, Chapters

  Source: collider.com

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• Today most funding for science comes through government. That means that you have to be known to be sympathetic to conclusions that are acceptable to the political classes.

  Doug Casey

  Mean, Class, Government

  Doug Casey (2012). “Totally Incorrect”, p.93, Laissez Faire Books

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• I would rather die in America than live in England. I would rather lose a match in America than win one in England. I have come to the conclusion that I neither mean to die soon or to lose the match!

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Mean, Winning, America

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• Your condition is NOT your conclusion.

  Dale C. Bronner

  Conditions

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• If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

  John Dewey

  Realization, Demand, Ends

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (1988). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.367, SIU Press

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• It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an instrument that will secure political solutions... They can see that the parliamentary democracy we boast of is becoming a sham.

  Tony Benn

  People, Political, Democracy

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• You know, our fundamentalist friends dislike the teaching of evolution in schools because of the effect they feel it has on our view of our own special importance, while liberals insist that scientific and spiritual matters can be kept in separate compartments. On this point, I tend to agree with the fundamentalists, though I come to opposite conclusions about teaching evolution because I am convinced it's true.

  Steven Weinberg

  Spiritual, Teaching, School

  Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• [The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise to its conclusion, avoiding subjectivity. Chance, taste, or unconsciously remembered forms would play no part in the outcome. The serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloguing the results of his premise.

  Sol LeWitt

  Beautiful, Artist, Play

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• I heard, one of my producers told me this story where like the Hollywood studios brought all these high-end consultants in to try to figure out how to improve their process and make films more efficiently, and these consultants like studied the process for years and finally came up with this report they put together about how studios can improve the efficiency of their process, and the conclusion was "have the script ready by the time you're shooting.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Years, Trying, Together

  Source: collider.com

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