Marvin Minsky Quotes
Perhaps it is no accident that one meaning of the word express is 'to squeeze'-for when you try to 'express yourself,' your language resources will have to pick and choose among the descriptions your other resources construct-and then attempt to squeeze a few of these through your tiny channels of phrases and gestures.
Quotes to Explore
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Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
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Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.
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It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!
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If they keep booing, and we keep winning, I don't care.
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We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.
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I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.
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A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.
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No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
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I'm doing stuff on Kaballah and Scientology and a little bit more racial stuff, for good measure.
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It's OK to turn down stuff that isn't really interesting and spend the summer with my family.
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Perhaps it is no accident that one meaning of the word express is 'to squeeze'-for when you try to 'express yourself,' your language resources will have to pick and choose among the descriptions your other resources construct-and then attempt to squeeze a few of these through your tiny channels of phrases and gestures.
