Angus Deaton Quotes
It's hard to think that Mark Zuckerberg is actually impoverishing anyone by getting rich with Facebook. But driverless cars are another matter entirely.
Angus Deaton
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Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression...
Karl Marx
Those who desire to be men in truth, and not brutes, having only the appearance and shape of men, must constantly endeavor to reduce the wants of the body, such as eating, love, drinking, anger, and all manners originating in lust and passion; they must feel ashamed of them and set limits to them for themselves.
Maimonides
In manufacturing food for its own cells, the plant is producing a supply of food that will be available for the sustenance of animal cells also. Thus the entire animal World may be said to be a vast parasitic colony as absolutely dependent upon the vegetable colony for its essential food supplies as any other parasite is dependent upon its host.
Luther Burbank
The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable. He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy.
Marcus Aurelius
Jezanna: Uh... lotta memories here, huh, dad?Albert: Remember this burn mark on the baseboard, from the time you stuck that piece of Erector Set in the outlet? You were always poking into something.Audrey: Mmm, girl!
Alison Bechdel
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
A Computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't program state machines.
Alan Cox
I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?
Martin Lawrence
The main thing I believe in is freedom.
Charles Evers
For Ghana to suggest that they will turn off the Internet, in addition to other countries that have done it like Uganda, Zimbabwe, DRC, Burundi, Chad and others, that's worrying.
Ory Okolloh
And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.
Bill Hicks
Once you're in the presence of people who have put their lives actively on the line, repeatedly, you're never allowed to complain again. And I do, and we all do. But now I look at things a little differently.
Ben Foster
