Marvin Minsky Quotes
Only the surface of reason is rational. I don't mean that understanding emotion is easy, only that understanding reason is probably harder.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
Zeljko Ivanek
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
Cameron Diaz
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
W. H. Davies
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If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.
Wayne Huizenga
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
Gabrielle Reece
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Victor Hugo
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
Sam Graves
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
W. Bruce Cameron
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
Taylor Swift
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Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
AJ McLean
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
Halle Berry
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
Larry King
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
Gavin Hood
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I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'
Maggie Cheung
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Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.
Waylon Jennings
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At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.
Edmund Phelps
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People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.
Vikram Chatwal
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
Damon Galgut
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Aurora had but newly chased the night,And purpled o'er the sky with blushing light.
Aurora
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Lift latch, step in, be welcome, Sir,Albeit to see you I’m unglad.
Max Beerbohm
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Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.
Dalai Lama
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In 1955, I got my degree in electrical-mechanical engineering. I realised, however, that my interest was less in practical applications than in the understanding of the underlying theoretical structure, and I decided to learn physics.
Francois Englert
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blessing the boats (at saint mary’s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that
Lucille Clifton
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Only the surface of reason is rational. I don't mean that understanding emotion is easy, only that understanding reason is probably harder.
Marvin Minsky