Peter Diamandis Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
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Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.
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But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.
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Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
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Fashion really is women's liberation in a lot of ways. Look at how many women in this country are depressed about how they look and how they think they have to look! It's really sad. And it's not about money.
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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
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It's easier to stop bad things than to pass good things.
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I had a fear of being alone.
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--I lifted one foot from the brackish water, and the bunny slippers were soaked and drooped pathetically. Even the fangs seemed robbed of any charm. "Don't worry," I told it. "Someone will pay for your suffering. Heavily. With screaming." I felt I should repeat it for the other slipper, in case there should be any bad feelings between the two. One should never create tension between ones's footwear. --POV is Myrnin, page 221
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The ability to touch people and literally change lives is incredibly relevant in a consumer-products company.
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Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.
