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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Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
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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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Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
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One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
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It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.
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For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
