William Irwin Thompson Quotes
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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I am a Buddhist.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Home is where one starts from.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
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Devices that allow people to shoot up to 100 rounds of ammunition at one time have no place in our schools, no place in our parks, no place on our streets, no place in our communities, and no place in this country.
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Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.
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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
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Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
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I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.
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Science is the storytelling of our time.
