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 always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
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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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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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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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I'm not a stone-thrower when it comes to Hillary Clinton and her emails and her server. I don't think there has been criminal intent on Hillary Clinton's part. I don't see an indictment.
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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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In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.
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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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It's important to remember that life is a joke, and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.
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The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g., some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.
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I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.
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Desire is God tapping at the door of your mind, trying to give you greater good.
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Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.
