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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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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Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.
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There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer.
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India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.
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I have a musician friend who, after reading Mountains, told me, "When I read the book, I wanted to quit music altogether and become a doctor." I told him, "Do you really think you can be a better doctor than you are a musician? Nobody needs you as a lousy doctor. Just be the one-of-a-kind, brilliant musician you are, and divert your success somehow to benefit the poor." You can achieve so much more this way.
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Everything which is human is alien to me.
