William Hazlitt Quotes
Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
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I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
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When I started selling air conditioners early on, customers were willing to pay an extra 200 yuan to buy from Suning. Why? Service was good.
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So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.
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To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.
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The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.
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Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)
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The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.
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I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
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Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
