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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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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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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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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I like Doritos. I'm usually watching 'The Biggest Loser' eating Doritos.
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I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature
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Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm’s Human Resources department.
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A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.
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Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen.
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Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.
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I have a little bit of extra testosterone, and it's good to put it to work when I can.
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I'm really proud of an independent movie called 'Angel's Perch' that you can get now on demand. It's a labor of love. People worked really, really hard, and it's a beautiful film.
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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.
