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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The purpose of computers is human freedom.
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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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The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.
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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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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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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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Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.
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It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.
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I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.
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Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator... Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does. Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.
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Why does gender appear in this primal scene of humans meeting their evolutionary successors, intelligent machines? What do gendered bodies have to do with the erasure of embodiment and the subsequent merging of machine and human intelligence in the figure of the cyborg?
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I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.
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It is the population which decides when it's time for a leader to leave, not foreign powers.
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Come hell or high water you will never take me back to the place I was before. I have been through too much to let life whoop me again. My faith is stronger than it's ever been, my mind is more tenacious than it's ever been, my soul is more absolute.
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I like to be other people, not me. And when you're on the red carpet, it's like, 'Here's Tom Hardy.' I don't want to be me. That's why I play other people.
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Everything which is human is alien to me.
