Gary Marcus Quotes
Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.
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I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.
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Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
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Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
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In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
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Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.
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Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.
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There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
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Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
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Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.
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Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.
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We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
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But you can't stop knowing something, can you?
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No matter what has happened. No matter what you’ve done. No matter what you will do. I will always love you. I swear it.
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Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
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If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.
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It's fun to be an actor and dress up, but I'm happy being me and just loving accepting my personal style.
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The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation- states, and its promotion by the UN is in clear contradiction to all that we, the Group of 77, and the UN Charter itself consider inalienable, namely national sovereignty and security.
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Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.
