"I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to."
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"The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death."
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"We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]"
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"We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best."
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"I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know."
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"Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!"
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"A theory is a battlefield in your head."
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"Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague."
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"Power floats like money, like language, like theory."
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"[Adolf] Hitler needed, he didn't want to kill Jews, he wanted to expel German Jews, and therefore it's not entirely corroborating your theory."
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"the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife."
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"In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside."
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"Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work."
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"My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere."
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"To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle has been seriously considered by Stephen Hawking, among others."
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"I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will."
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"But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science."
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"It is only theory that makes men completely incautious."
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"I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me."
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"That's really part of being a grounded theory researcher - putting names to concepts and experiences that people have."
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