Scott Adams Quotes
The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day. This is why people of different religions can generally live in peace. At some level, we all suspect that other people don't believe their own religion any more than we believe ours.
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.
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If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.
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It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.
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For members of the Democratic Party, and progressives all over the world, it is difficult to overstate or hyperbolize the despair and dread that has descended upon them in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump.
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Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.
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Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.
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I like Doritos. I'm usually watching 'The Biggest Loser' eating Doritos.
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Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.
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Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice of art itself. More and more in its creations it has given inwardness to that what surrounds us in nature, until, in Neo-Plasticism, nature is no longer dominant. This achievement of balance may prepare the way for the fulfillment of man and signal the end of (what we call) art.
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Get my velocity back up -- it was down a little.
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I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.
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If you really look at it, I was trying to sell a dream … There was very little I could put in concrete to tell these people it was really real.
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The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day. This is why people of different religions can generally live in peace. At some level, we all suspect that other people don't believe their own religion any more than we believe ours.
