Jostein Gaarder Quotes
It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.
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Google has been an amazing benefit for our business. People understand the whole world of mapping and want to do more than not get lost. They want to do spatial analytics. It's been fantastic for us.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.
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The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.
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We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output.
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If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it.
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Whatever limits us we call Fate.
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I'm out of my mind! Somebody told me that a long time ago. Some idiot! laughs … In a dream. I don't want to think about dreams now.
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Who believes in Aslan nowadays?
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
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If you’re going to do something that crazy, save it for when it’ll make a difference. But absent near-omniscience there’s no way to know when that is. You can only make your best approximate calculation. You can only make your throw and try to puzzle out the results afterward.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.
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Video games in some ways are too powerful, they have too much resonance with kids. And it's very easy to overdose on video games and to let the outside world go by.
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Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.
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If you fail to report within the next 12 hours. you will be terminated. If you attack any humans, you will be terminated. If you attempt to remove the tracking device, you will be terminated. We look forward to working with you.
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It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.
