Nick Bostrom Quotes
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We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.
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I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
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We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.
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I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.
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I kept getting told, 'You need to bulk up. Burgers and shakes. Burgers and shakes.' That's never been my thing.
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I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.
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As a businessman, you need economic certainty. On the tax policies. You need it on your regulatory policies.
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If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.
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I feel like I need to continuously keep evolving and moving.
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You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.
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People need revelation, and then they need resolution.
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If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention.
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And finally, Africa’s progress will depend on upholding the human rights of all people - for if each of us is to be treated with dignity, each of us must be sure to also extend that same dignity to others.
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From the first the progress of man has been slowly but surely from the artificial to the natural, from the arbitrary and chimerical to the simple and scientific. Getting himself and his affairs more and more into natural currents and following them, this is the way man has progressed.
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With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have to make the clay first.
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I read, I think, I play, I work. And all that thinkingand playing and reading comes into my art. I couldn't really sithere and delineate for you what the thought process is. I can perhapssay that literature, psychoanalysis and theater have been very valuableexperiences that have informed and nourished me along the way.
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I spend my money like I don't have anything.
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I've helped bring him home a few titles. There is no reason to get nervous. It's a long season, these things are a matter of patience.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress.
