Norbert Wiener Quotes
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
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Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.
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When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business.
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Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.
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It's like everyone I have dinner with, I'm having an affair with. Who was it I met the other day? Minnie Driver! She seems charming, but that's the only time I've met her.
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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated - if there's not pharmacological intervention - it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
