Richard Taylor

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Mr Taylor’s sketchy profile claims him as “one of the newest sought after ‘thriller’ actors on the scene today”, with producers allegedly finding “his sinister voice mystifying and full of suspense, and in direct contrast to his handsome appearance”. Now this all may well be true, but what really strikes me in his delivery is the breathy, manic and nearly unhinged quality he gives these readings. In the best parts (like when the character is all worked up) <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Rich

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5 total works indexed

1. The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data

   · 1977 · cited 61,615x

2. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

   · 2009 · cited 58,105x

3. Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

   · 2009 · cited 46,741x

4. ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database

   · 2009 · cited 46,129x

5. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

   · 2009 · cited 45,427x

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Quotes

• “Many people ... go through life with hardly an original thought; gravitate from one pleasure or amusement to another; gain a livelihood doing what someone else has assigned; flee boredom as best they can; marry and beget children; and then, without having made the slightest difference of any unique significance, die and decay like any animal.”
• “I shall maintain that there simply is no such thing as philosophical knowledge, nor any philosophical way of knowing anything, and defend the humble point that philosophy is indeed the love of wisdom.”
• “For philosophy, it is supposed by vast numbers of students and teachers of the subject, has for its goal philosophical knowledge, and indeed, even certain knowledge. It is presupposed, therefore, that there is such a thing as philosophical knowledge, and there are even men who think themselves the possessors of at least some of it.”
• “Indeed, it would probably be true to say that the fruit of metaphysical thought is not knowledge but understanding.”
• “The reader is therefore exhorted...to suspend his judgement concerning the final truth of things, since probably neither he nor anyone else knows what these are, and to content himself with appreciating the problems of metaphysics. This is the first and always the most difficult step. The rest of the truth, if he is ever blessed to receive any of it, will come from within him, if it ever comes at all, and not from the reading of books.”

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