Mason Cooley Quotes
Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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I can paint in jail.
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Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
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It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
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There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
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I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
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We need to come up with use cases for this technology that drive clear benefits for individuals and institutions - these are our customers. Too often we see bitcoin and blockchain technologies as solutions in search of a problem. We don't just need these systems to be technically better than the alternatives - we need them to be more user-friendly.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.
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Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
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Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don’t think that sex is my Muse.
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Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
