Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Quotes
Today we know more about Jupiter than the guy who lives next door to us. We can predict where an election will go, we can turn a gene on or off, and we can even send a robot to Mars, but we are lost if asked to explain or predict the phenomena we might expect to know the most about, the actions of our fellow humans.
Quotes to Explore
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I've experienced many hardships, but mentally, I've always been older, and that reflects in my actions, too.
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
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We just have to be careful of our actions as world citizens.
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The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.
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Actions speak louder than words. The reality is that at least 10 journalists have been killed by the US military, and according to reports I believe to be true journalists have been arrested and tortured by US forces.
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For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
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A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
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I think we validate our lives through our actions.
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Our actions determine our dispositions.
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I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
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I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.
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The same thinking and actions that created our problems cannot be used to solve them.
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Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.
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Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.
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An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.....
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We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.
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Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.
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...now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.
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Granting, I say that competition has hitherto been the universal law, the last word, of nature, still if only one man should stand up and say, 'It shall be so no more,' if he should say, 'It is not the last word of my nature, and my acts and life declare that it is not,' then that so-called law would be at an end.
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Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.
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Today we know more about Jupiter than the guy who lives next door to us. We can predict where an election will go, we can turn a gene on or off, and we can even send a robot to Mars, but we are lost if asked to explain or predict the phenomena we might expect to know the most about, the actions of our fellow humans.
