Erlend Loe Quotes
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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.
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The purpose of computers is human freedom.
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What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?
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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
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the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.
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There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.
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The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.
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America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
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For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.
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Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.
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What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.
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Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.
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The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.
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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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If design is the first signal of human intention.
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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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The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and we can fix that."
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World federation is an ideal that will not die. More and more people are coming to realize that peace must be more than an interlude if we are to survive; that peace is a produce of law and order; that law is essential if the force of arms is not to rule the world.
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In many ways, large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally attached to large profits. I've certainly made some of my worst trades after long periods of winning. When you're on a big winning streak, there's a temptation to think that you're doing something special, which will allow you to continue to propel yourself upward. You start to think that you can afford to make shoddy decisions. You can imagine what happens next. As a general rule, losses make you strong and profits make you weak.
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Everything which is human is alien to me.
