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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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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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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Standing at the bus stop sucking on a lollipop Once she gets pumping its hard to make the hottie stop
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The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.
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I'm going for something very raw and organic.
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When I was going through school, I joined the Lyceum Youth Theatre, and that kind of cemented it. Through being in and around the building and watching shows, I realised that there was something I really loved about it, so I went into the stage management side.
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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.
