Hans Jonas Quotes
It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
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It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that works alongside that; it's to think of it as programmable money. And we just cannot even imagine what that will be used for.
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I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.
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Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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Psychiatry causes so much death.
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I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.
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Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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You don't try to do more than you should.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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There's always a fine line between being too focused and missing opportunities, or being too wide and taking on too many.
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The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it’s about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.
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Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.
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The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny. Other ideologies can be challenged with evidence and reason, but religion is allowed a pass by most people. And that's why it's especially dangerous.
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It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
