David Langford Quotes
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.
David Langford
Quotes to Explore
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I might try that one thing, you know, that thing people do when their eyes get all wet and stupid—what’s it called? Crying? Or NOT. I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won’t punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child.
Laini Taylor
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If 90 percent or 95 percent of those - chemical stockpiles [in Syria] were eliminated, that's a lot of chemical weapons that are not right now in the hands of ISIL or Nusra or, for that matter, the regime.
Barack Obama
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Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.
C. Wright Mills
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My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.
Abraham Lincoln
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We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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How can a reason which hates God be called sound?
Martin Luther
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Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
Erica Jong
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I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
Albert Camus
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No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market.
Nikola Tesla
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
Natalie du Toit
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With difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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You must find a more empowering source of comfort, connection, and control than food. Perhaps a creative outlet, helping others, becoming active in an organization, whatever.
Anthony Robbins
