Edward Boyden Quotes
We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.
Quotes to Explore
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Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.
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I'd love to drive a Bugatti - something totally ridiculous but super fast.
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Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
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The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all fell victim to chronically relying on Beijing's empty promises with the distant hope that China would finally use its influence to reign in Pyongyang's provocative behavior, to no avail.
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The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.
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People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
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Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.
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Getting to be in Chicago when the Cubs won the World Series was one of the most magical experiences I think I've ever had in a city.
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Every choice we make contains the energy of either faith or fear, and the outcome of every decision reflects to some extent that faith or fear. This dynamic of choice guarantees that we cannot run away from ourselves or our decisions.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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Art is doing something you really believe in.
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I suppose if I didn't write for a living and it couldn't be published, I would have wanted to write anyway. I think there's something about the act of writing that organizes thoughts and memories.
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We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.
