Herbert Spencer Quotes
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
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People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.
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The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.
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Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.
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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
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Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.
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The rainy Pleiads wester,Orion plunges prone,The stroke of midnight ceases,And I lie down alone.
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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Why do I have this imagination? It's the only one I've got!
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Yes, I'm known as the most technical fighter in the world, and I'm going to keep that as my brand.
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When I am working on a movie, all I want to talk about is the movie. All I want to be with are the movie people. It's like a clan. If I'm asked to people's houses for dinner, I hate to go, because they'll talk about other things.
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My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.
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It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.
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Why would a married couple that lives together every day need to date each other? It's precisely because they live and sleep together.
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I used to spend hours just sitting in an old wreck of a car with a stickshift; I'd just sit there and shift.
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I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to make some noise as an actor.
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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
