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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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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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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Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
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Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.
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The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.
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My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.
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Karlen and her colleagues had expected that hostile/intrusive behavior on the part of the mothers would be the most powerful predictor of mental instability in their adult children, but they discovered otherwise. Emotional withdrawal had the most profound and long-lasting impact. Emotional distance and role reversal (in which mothers expected the kids to look after them) were specifically linked to aggressive behavior against self and others in the young adults.
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We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.
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The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is. ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.
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Everything which is human is alien to me.
