Gemma Whelan Quotes
I'm more frightened than interested by artificial intelligence - in fact, perhaps fright and interest are not far away from one another. Things can become real in your mind, you can be tricked, and you believe things you wouldn't ordinarily. A world run by automatons doesn't seem completely unrealistic any more. It's a bit chilling.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
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Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
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I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.
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I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.
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Any agreement with Iran should have strong verification and enforcement safeguards to prevent future cheating.
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I'm more frightened than interested by artificial intelligence - in fact, perhaps fright and interest are not far away from one another. Things can become real in your mind, you can be tricked, and you believe things you wouldn't ordinarily. A world run by automatons doesn't seem completely unrealistic any more. It's a bit chilling.
