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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
Experiment
Relation
Indeed
Between
Naive
Sharply
Theory
Differs
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
Imre Lakatos
Positive
Negative
Research
Programmes
Characterized
Besides
Also
The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
Imre Lakatos
Clash
About
Point
Mere
Between
Epistemology
Technical
One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
Janos Bolyai
Nature
Blindly
Must
Nor
Model
Any
Formed
Conformity
Violence
Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.
Janos Kadar
Leadership
Great
Party
Past
Our
Bad
Shadow
Cast
Years
Burdens
Grave
I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.
Janos Kadar
Myself
Selfish
Socialism
Pure
Party
Progressive
Our
Address
Those
Prompted
Join
Ideas
Were
Personal
Represent
Just
Mankind
Us
Interests
Means
Communists
Who
Let Us
In these momentous hours of our history we call on every Hungarian worker who is led by devotion to the people and the country to join our Party, the name of which is the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party.
Janos Kadar
History
People
Country
Party
Every
Our
Hungarian
Join
Name
Hours
Call
Devotion
Led
Which
Worker
Workers
Who
Momentous
Socialist
It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.
Janos Kadar
Class
Anger
People
Speak
Power
Country
Our
Only
Attack
Democratic
Reactionary
Order
Burning
Against
Capital
Working
Working-Class
Elements
The terrible, diabolic thing with this disease is that you are always looking behind your shoulder every couple months with the most recent checkup to see whether there is any sign of it, and I thank God to say at this point there is not.
Joe Eszterhas
God
You
Thank God
Looking
Every
Months
Say
Sign
See
Point
Most
Couple
Terrible
Always
Thank
Disease
Any
Behind
Whether
Shoulder
Your
Thing
Recent
That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.
Joe Eszterhas
Thought
Drinking
Miss
Sort
Felt
Were
Truly
Places
Holy
Bars
My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.
Joe Eszterhas
Immigration
Father
Could
Writings
He
Checking
Obviously
Because
Printer
Said
Been
His
Want
Them
Application
Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.
Joe Eszterhas
Politics
About
Front
Getting
Candidate
Movie
Public
Meanwhile
Star
I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.
Joe Eszterhas
Smoking
Big
Think
Correct
Kind
Brother
Case
Particularly
Because
Smoker
Felt
Big Brother
Politically
Politically Correct
Used
Militant
Assault
I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.
Joe Eszterhas
Change
Idiot
On-Screen
Way
Some
Write
Make
Sure
Just
Screen
Wanted
Appears
I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.
Joe Eszterhas
Loyalty
Writing
Only
Never
Studio
Head
Wanted
Producer
I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.
Joe Eszterhas
God
Own
Religious
My Own
Head
Bond
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.
Joe Eszterhas
Director
Past
Too
Memoirs
Writer
Had
Written
Prime
Read
Were
His
After
Many
Her
I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.
Joe Eszterhas
Always
Wanted
Star
From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.
Joe Eszterhas
You
Director
Soul
Heart
Writing
Power
Lost
Gut
Something
Point
Point Of View
Piece
Makes
Brain
Process
Working
View
Original
Teams
Now
Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life.
Joe Eszterhas
Life
Time
Good
Me
Writing
Phone
Too Much
My Life
Lost
Every
Think
Too
Every Time
Gave
Channels
About
Touch
Hawaii
Naomi
Talking
Off
Little
Cut
Much
Chance
My parents owned a pharmacy in Budapest, which gave us a comfortable living. As I was their only child, they wanted me to become a pharmacist. But my own preference would have been to study philosophy and mathematics.
John Harsanyi
Mathematics
Me
Parents
Become
Own
Living
Gave
Philosophy
Would
My Own
Only
Only Child
Budapest
Study
Comfortable
Been
Child
Owned
Wanted
Which
Preference
Us
Pharmacist
Pharmacy
In 1946, I re-enrolled at the University of Budapest in order to obtain a Ph.D. in philosophy with minors in sociology and in psychology.
John Harsanyi
Philosophy
Budapest
Obtain
Order
Psychology
Sociology
University
One might argue that proper understanding of any social situation would require game-theoretic analysis.
John Harsanyi
Understanding
Situation
Analysis
Would
Proper
Argue
Any
Social
Might
Require
Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.
John Lukacs
Superpower
Make
Chinese
Billion
Even
For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.
John Polanyi
Freedom
Science
Must
Oxygen
Breathe
Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.
John Polanyi
Knowledge
Mind
Only
Facts
Equated
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