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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Dogmatism as Nietzsche means it implies that one possesses the truth, or at least the most important or the most valuable truth. Yet the truth is elusive like that woman of whom he spoke at the very beginning. Elsewhere he says we are the first generation which no longer believes that it possesses the truth. That is what he means by the end of dogmatism.
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I could see peace instead of this.
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I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.
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We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.
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What people don't understand is that it wasn't about Dean or Eddie, it was about whether or not I was in the right place.
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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.
