Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes
Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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I think it's fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.
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I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
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I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
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I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline.
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I love coming to India, and I find the people out here very warm and social as compared to people in the U.S.
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I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.
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The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
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I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.
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Everything on a boat has a different name than it would have if it weren't on a boat. Either this is ancient seafaring tradition or it's how people who mess around with boats try to impress the rest of us who actually finished college.
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The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species.
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The Buddhist view, 'takes the function of work to be at least threefold': 'to give a man a chance to utilize and develop his faculties; to enable him to overcome his egocentredness by joining with other people in a common task; and to bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.'
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He expected to have only one clear shot at the assorted joys of living, and he had no intention of risking it to meet someone else’s misconceived expectations.
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The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.
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I was very shy and I was very introverted as a kid, but whenever I set foot on stage, I kind of opened up, and I think a lot of kids need an outlet to express their creativity. And a lot of kids are scared to do that if there's not a safe environment for that.
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I tell young comics, 'Do you want this badly enough? It's there. But you have to go get it. And if you think I'm going to give you the key to the lock of that door, there is no key, there is no lock, and there is no door.'
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I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch 'Pet Cemetery' as a kid. After seeing those animals reincarnate, I screamed and couldn't sleep for weeks, but watched it again and again.
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Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.
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Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.
