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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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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I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.
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Yeah exactly, so if anyone's bummed that The Mars Volta record's too simple or too pop, they can buy that album and it'll take them right back to that kind of sound. It's one of my favourite things I've ever worked on. It's pretty much a Mars Volta record, just without Thomas, Ikey, and Marcel. With Volta [Octahedron] was just our acoustic record that turned into our pop record.
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Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless and until you have sense of chastity you cannot have dharma.
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Everything which is human is alien to me.
